What is "resolves"

Usage examples of "resolves".

This remark piqued me, and I answered that she was imprudent to disclose her designs in such a manner, and that she would find my resolves strong enough when the time came.

The noble bumtrap, blind and deaf to every circumstance of distress, greatly rises above all the motives to humanity, and into the hands of the gaoler resolves to deliver his miserable prey.

At heart Rosalie was a great creature, capable of noble resolves, but like all women she gave way to sudden emotions.

Such resolves did he make to himself wearily how that 400L might be made to be forthcoming.

Let us hope that his thoughts and mental resolves were then of service to him.

I am glad that yours is one of the earliest voices which confirm my new resolves on my return to busy England!