resolutioner

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noun

One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution.

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Meanings

nounresolutioner (plural resolutioners)

plural resolutioners

  1. One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution.
  2. capitalizedhistoricaloftenA 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 estate

    1815 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, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC

Origin

From resolution + -er.

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