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resolutioner

resolutioner noun: one who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution.

Noun

resolutioner (plural resolutioners)

  1. One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution.
  2. (capitalized, historical, often) A member of a 17th-century party in the Church of Scotland who approved of the resolutions of the Commission of General Assembly (1650) allowing all persons, except those excommunicate and hostile to the Covenant, to take part in the struggle against Oliver Cromwell.
    • These two crossgrained epithets of malignant and resolutioner cost poor Sir Allan one half of the family estate1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...

Forms of resolutioner

pluralresolutioners

Origin of resolutioner

From resolution + -er.

Questions about resolutioner

What does resolutioner mean?
Resolutioner means one who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution.
What part of speech is resolutioner?
Resolutioner is a noun.
What is the plural of resolutioner?
The plural of resolutioner is resolutioners.

Words near resolutioner in the dictionary

  1. resolution advisory
  2. Resolution Island
  3. resolutional
  4. resolutionaries
  5. resolutionary
  6. resolutioner
  7. resolutioners
  8. resolutionist
  9. resolutionists
  10. resolutions
  11. resolutive

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