resolving

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RESOLV'ING, participle present tense Separating into component parts; analyzing; removing perplexities or obscurity; discussing, as tumors; determining. RESOLV'ING, noun The act of determining or forming a fixed purpose; a resolution.
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