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resolutioner|rɛzəˈl(j)uːʃənə(r)|
[f. resolution + -er1.]
1. Hist. (With capital initial.) A member of that party in Scotland which accepted the resolutions passed in 1650 for rehabilitating those persons who had not taken part in the struggle against Cromwell.
1693Apol. Clergy Scot. 78 The Publick Resolutioners had made defection. a1715Burnet Own Time i. (1897) I. 97 Those who adhered to these resolutions were called the Public Resolutioners. Ibid. 111 The Resolutioners were known to have been more in the king's interests: so they were not so kindly looked on as the Protestors. 1816Scott Old Mort. v, They had parted in some unkindness at the time when the kingdom of Scotland was divided into Resolutioners and Protestors. 1872Contemp. Rev. XXI. 76 Resolutioners like Dickson and Protesters like Patrick Gillespie.
2. One who joins in or subscribes to a resolution.
1816Southey Ess. (1832) I. 364 They say,..the said resolutioners of Bishopsgate-ward,..‘We claim..a constitutional voice in the House of the people’. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xxiv. (1858) 535 The parochial resolutioners, amounting in all to ten. |