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resolutely

adv
/ˈɹɛz.əˌlutli/US/ˈɹɛz.əˌl(j)uːtli/UK

Etymology

From resolute + -ly.

Definitions

  1. In a determined, unyielding manner.

    • Dorcas, faithful to her “young gentlemen,” denied strenuously that it could have been John’s voice she heard, and resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress.
    • It was applied methodically, carefully, resolutely, as in the fashion of a Satin-bird with charcoal, desiccated wood or blue from laundry-bags.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at resolutely. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at resolutely. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at resolutely

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA