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RESOLUTELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing firm determination or purpose
Example:
he entered the building resolutely
Classified under:
Antonym:
irresolutely (lacking determination or decisiveness)
Pertainym:
resolute (firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
With firmness
Example:
'I will come along,' she said decisively
Synonyms:
decisively; resolutely
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Context examples:
He refused resolutely to pledge himself to any new thing.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He took all manner of risks, resolutely thrusting his little weazened face into the frost and struggling on from dim dawn to dark.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Make up your mind to that, or I'll never go, she added resolutely, as he tried to reclaim his load.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
As soon as I remembered I was not defenceless, courage glowed again in my heart and I set my face resolutely for this man of the island and walked briskly towards him.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
To Milsom Street she was directed, and having made herself perfect in the number, hastened away with eager steps and a beating heart to pay her visit, explain her conduct, and be forgiven; tripping lightly through the church-yard, and resolutely turning away her eyes, that she might not be obliged to see her beloved Isabella and her dear family, who, she had reason to believe, were in a shop hard by.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Would Sir Thomas have consented to eat, she might have gone to the housekeeper with troublesome directions, and insulted the footmen with injunctions of despatch; but Sir Thomas resolutely declined all dinner: he would take nothing, nothing till tea came—he would rather wait for tea.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In another moment, however, she found herself in the state of being released from him; some one was taking him from her, though he had bent down her head so much, that his little sturdy hands were unfastened from around her neck, and he was resolutely borne away, before she knew that Captain Wentworth had done it.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
And had I truly disciplined my heart to this, and could I resolutely bear it, and calmly hold the place in her home which she had calmly held in mine,—when I found my eyes resting on a countenance that might have arisen out of the fire, in its association with my early remembrances.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Once a kite, hovering over the garden, made a stoop at me, and if I had not resolutely drawn my hanger, and run under a thick espalier, he would have certainly carried me away in his talons.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
To this he spoke out resolutely:—Nonsense, Mina.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
