RESOLUTELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resolutely mean? 

• RESOLUTELY (adverb)
  The adverb RESOLUTELY has 2 senses:

1. showing firm determination or purpose

2. with firmness

  Familiarity information: RESOLUTELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESOLUTELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing firm determination or purpose

Context example:

he entered the building resolutely

Antonym:

irresolutely (lacking determination or decisiveness)

Pertainym:

resolute (firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With firmness

Synonyms:

decisively; resolutely

Context example:

'I will come along,' she said decisively

 Context examples 

Well, I saw I must try to help the medicine to its work with my will, if it was to do me any good, so I resolutely set myself to sleep.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I that evening shut my eyes resolutely against the future: I stopped my ears against the voice that kept warning me of near separation and coming grief.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So began Miss Bates; and Mr. Knightley seemed determined to be heard in his turn, for most resolutely and commandingly did he say, How is your niece, Miss Bates?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"It is well," he said, turning resolutely on his heel.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Nay, it may not be. I have other work to do. I have tarried with you over long,” quoth Alleyne, and resolutely set forth upon his journey once more.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They both eagerly and resolutely declined her invitation.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Jane resolutely kept her place at the table; but Elizabeth, to satisfy her mother, went to the window—she looked,—she saw Mr. Darcy with him, and sat down again by her sister.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I turned resolutely to the door.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he resolutely held the door of his tepee, inside which he had placed the culprit, and refused to permit the vengeance for which his tribespeople clamoured.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But in all that wild waste there was no refuge for Leach and Johnson save on the Ghost, and they resolutely began the windward beat.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)