unresolve

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UK/(ˌ)ʌn.ɹɪˈzɒlv/US/ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɑlv/US/ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɔlv/

noun

The lack of the quality of resolve.

Scrabble 12

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noununresolve (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe lack of the quality of resolve.

    But the truth is that all of us, including this Union, are now poised at a dangerous place midst the unresolve of God that flows off as unresolve into the real world around us.

    1996, Walter Brueggemann, Charles Campbell, The threat of life: sermons on pain, power, and weakness, page 37
verbunresolve (third-person singular simple present unresolves, present participle unresolving, simple past and past participle unresolved)

present singular third person unresolves · participle present unresolving · participle past unresolved · past unresolved

  1. To undo a resolution.

    Similarly, the visual dynamics of cubo-futurist and expressionist designs also found their way into constructivist architecture. On the one hand, the dynamics consisted of unresolving the visual tensions between the component parts and […]

    1981, Kestutis Paul Zygas, Form follows form, page 77
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    […] remembered experience in QuickTime is often "bit-mapped" and "pixelated": boxed fragments of photorealist images are fragmented and compartmentalized further into smaller boxes yet, unresolving the personal meaning and contours of human memory and resolving them as the visible and controlled geometry that informs the computer's underlying memory and structuration.

    2004, Lauren Rabinovitz, Abraham Geil, Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture, page 316

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APA

unresolve. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unresolve

MLA

“unresolve.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unresolve. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unresolve,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unresolve.

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