resolving

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resolving

  1. present participle and gerund of resolve

Noun

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resolving (countable and uncountable, plural resolvings)

  1. The act of forming a resolution.
    • 1666, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners:
      But alas! these thoughts, and wishings, and resolvings, were now too late to help me; this thought had passed my heart, God hath let me go, and I am fallen.
    • 1965, Ann Ree Colton, The soul and the ethic, page 167:
      He who obeys not the good Shepherd of the soul and heart has an untruthful mind; a mind filled with fallacies; a mind of wrong resolvings and concludings.

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