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resolutioner

American  
[rez-uh-loo-shuh-ner] / ˌrɛz əˈlu ʃə nər /
Or resolutionist

noun

  1. a person joining in or subscribing to a resolution.


Etymology

Origin of resolutioner

First recorded in 1685–95; resolution + -er 1

Example Sentences

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Baillie was a Resolutioner, Sharpe a zealous Resolutioner too; and Baillie, naturally unsuspicious, and biassed in his behalf by that spirit of party which can darken the judgment of even the most discerning, seems to have regarded him as peculiarly the hope of the Church.

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Though Baillie was a Resolutioner, he seems to have had some misgivings as to the course he adopted.

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The Resolutioner, who wished to repeal the Act of Classes, was too lukewarm: the Remonstrant was too violent.

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Two-and-forty came in, including the Resolutioner Douglas, in 1660 the correspondent of Sharp. 

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The ministers and others ejected by Cromwell's visitors had been mostly of the Resolutioner species; and one of Baillie's complaints is that Protesters, whether fit or not, were put into vacant livings by the English, and that only Scotsmen of that colour were conjoined with the English in the executive and the judicatories.

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