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resolutioners

resolutioners is the plural of resolutioner.

Meaning of resolutioner

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...

Questions about resolutioners

What is resolutioners the plural of?
Resolutioners is the plural of resolutioner.

Words near resolutioners in the dictionary

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

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