resolving

The act of forming a resolution.

Noun

  1. The act of forming a resolution.
    • 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. - 1666, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners:
    • 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. - 1965, Ann Ree Colton, The soul and the ethic, page 167:

Forms

resolvings

Derived

resolving power

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of resolve