resolutioner
English
Etymology
resolution + -er
Noun
resolutioner (plural resolutioners)
- One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution.
- (historical) A 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 Cromwell.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for resolutioner in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Swedish
Noun
resolutioner
- indefinite plural of resolution