resolving

English

Verb

resolving

1. present participle and gerund of resolve

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• resolving power

Anagrams

• Loverings, gloverins, overlings