resolvedness

English

Etymology

From resolved +‎ -ness.

Noun

resolvedness (uncountable)

1. Fixedness of purpose; resolution.
   • 1662, Henry More, “Enthusiasmus Triumphatus; or, A Brief Discourse of the Nature, Causes, Kinds, and Cure of Enthusiasm. Section LX. That the Resolved Sufferings for Mistaken Points in Religion is No Good Argument against the Truth of All Religion.”, in A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr Henry More […], London: […] James Flesher for William Morden, […], →OCLC, page 42:

     I Muſt confeſs that an ordinary reflexion upon this reſolvedneſs of ſuffering to the utmoſt extremity in perſons that are thus miſtaken in the points they ſuffer for, cannot but make ſuch as are Atheiſtically inclined ſubject to think That there is no Truth nor Certainty at all in Religion; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “resolvedness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)