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- noun Plural form of
resolutioner .
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Examples
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He joined with that party called resolutioners, and composed several of the papers belonging to that side _anno_ 1661.
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Of particular note is how the "resolutioners" (those that join in January) interact with the old-timers like me.
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Of particular note is how the \ "resolutioners\" (those that join in January) interact with the old-timers like me.
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Suddenly, every health club is jammed with pudgy, out-of-breath New Year's resolutioners--who may or may not look like you.
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Silas Morton, once a stout and worthy servant of the Covenant, had been a backslider in the day when the resolutioners had led the way in owning the authority of Charles Stewart, thereby making a gap whereat the present tyrant was afterwards brought in, to the oppression both of Kirk and country.
Old Mortality 2004
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Which scheme, approven of and put in execution, with the consent of a corrupt part of the ministry of the church, called afterward resolutioners, made way for that sad and bloody catastrophe, which after befel the poor church of Christ in this land.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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Covenant, had been a backslider in the day when the resolutioners had led the way in owning the authority of Charles Stewart, thereby making a gap whereat the present tyrant was afterwards brought in, to the oppression both of Kirk and country.
Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801
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Covenant, had been a backslider in the day when the resolutioners had led the way in owning the authority of Charles Stewart, thereby making a gap whereat the present tyrant was afterwards brought in, to the oppression both of Kirk and country.
Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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And as Mr. Guthrie did faithfully testify against the resolutioners and the malignant party, so he did equally oppose himself to the sectaries and to Cromwell's usurpation; and although he went up to London _anno_
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All this time, _viz. _ in 1650 and 1651, Mr. Dickson had a great share in the printed pamphlets upon the unhappy debates betwixt the resolutioners and the protestors, he was in his opinions for the public resolutioners: and most of the papers on that side were wrote by him,
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