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• n  the trait of being resolute
  his resoluteness carried him through the battle

• Two pigs were outstanding: Napoleon, a big, rather fierce-looking boar of a Stalinesque taciturnity and resoluteness, and Snowball, an ingenious pig of Trotsky-esque vivacity .
• Such resoluteness is supposed to limit the fallout to include only Peregrine's 1,700 employees worldwide.
• Well might they read with a new anguish of hope, a new resoluteness of faith, a new temper of charity, the age-old wordsperhaps the most perfect ever uttered:.

• firmness
• firmness of purpose
• resolve
• resolution

• irresoluteness

Quotes

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• Gordon Brown in Hartford Courant
  In London, Brown praised Bush for his "steadfastness and resoluteness."
• Olympia Snowe in New York Times
  I expressed reservations,Ms. Snowe said. "I said, 'Why should we expect any different result than previously, that I didn't believe the Maliki government had demonstrated the political will or capacity or resoluteness for reconciliation,...
• Condoleezza Rice in Reuters
  People have been trying to do this for a long time and it has not happened but ...... there is a great resoluteness on behalf of the president and myself,Rice said in Ramallah.