Fortitude vs. Resolve

Fortitudenoun

Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.

Resolveverb

(transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).

Fortitudenoun

(archaic) Physical strength.

Resolveverb

(transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.

‘to resolve a riddle’;

Fortitudenoun

Power to resist attack; strength; firmness.

‘The fortitude of the place is best known to you.’;

Resolveverb

(transitive) To solve again.

‘I’ll have to resolve the equation with the new values.’;

Fortitudenoun

That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble.

‘Extolling patience as the truest fortitude.’; ‘Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.’;

Resolveverb

(intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.

‘I resolve to finish this work before I go home.’;

Fortitudenoun

strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage

Resolveverb

(transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.

‘He was resolved by an unexpected event.’;

Resolveverb

To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.

‘After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences.’;

Resolveverb

To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.

Resolveverb

To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

Resolveverb

(music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.

Resolveverb

(optics) To render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.

Resolveverb

(computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.

Resolveverb

To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).

Resolveverb

To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.

Resolveverb

To liquefy (a gas or vapour).

Resolveverb

To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.

Resolveverb

(obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.

Resolveverb

(chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.

Resolvenoun

Determination, will power.

‘It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.’;

Resolveverb

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; - said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

‘O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!’; ‘Ye immortal souls, who once were men,And now resolved to elements again.’;

Resolveverb

To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; - said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.

‘To the resolving whereof we must first know that the Jews were commanded to divorce an unbelieving Gentile.’;

Resolveverb

To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

‘Sir, be resolved. I must and will come.’; ‘Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse,Want with a full, or with an empty purse?’; ‘In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equaled by any region.’; ‘We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.’;

Resolveverb

To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.

Resolveverb

To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; - followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).

Resolveverb

To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; - used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.

Resolveverb

To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of.

Resolveverb

To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.

Resolveverb

To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.

Resolveverb

To relax; to lay at ease.

Resolveverb

To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.

Resolveverb

To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.

‘When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline.’;

Resolveverb

To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.

‘Let men resolve of that as they plaease.’;

Resolveverb

To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.

Resolvenoun

The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.

Resolvenoun

That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.

‘Nor is your firm resolve unknown.’; ‘Cæsar's approach has summoned us together,And Rome attends her fate from our resolves.’;

Resolvenoun

the trait of being resolute; firmness of purpose;

‘his resoluteness carried him through the battle’; ‘it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work’;

Resolvenoun

a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote

Resolveverb

bring to an end; settle conclusively;

‘The case was decided’; ‘The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff’; ‘The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance’;

Resolveverb

reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation

Resolveverb

reach a decision;

‘he resolved never to drink again’;

Resolveverb

understand the meaning of;

‘The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered’;

Resolveverb

make clearly visible;

‘can this image be resolved?’;

Resolveverb

find the solution;

‘solve an equation’; ‘solve for x’;

Resolveverb

cause to go into a solution;

‘The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water’;