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unresolve en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɑlv/ (US)
  • /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɔlv/ (US)
  • /(ˌ)ʌn.ɹɪˈzɒlv/ (UK)

Etymology

From un- + resolve.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The lack of the quality of resolve.
    • But the truth is that all of us, including this Union, are now poised at a dangerous place midst the unresolve of God that flows off as unresolve into the real world around us. 1996, Walter Brueggemann, Charles Campbell, The threat of life: sermons on pain, power, and weakness, page 37:

unresolve en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɑlv/ (US)
  • /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɔlv/ (US)
  • /(ˌ)ʌn.ɹɪˈzɒlv/ (UK)

Etymology

From un- + resolve.

Meanings

  1. To undo a resolution.
    • Similarly, the visual dynamics of cubo-futurist and expressionist designs also found their way into constructivist architecture. On the one hand, the dynamics consisted of unresolving the visual tensions between the component parts and […] 1981, Kestutis Paul Zygas, Form follows form, page 77:
    • […] remembered experience in QuickTime is often "bit-mapped" and "pixelated": boxed fragments of photorealist images are fragmented and compartmentalized further into smaller boxes yet, unresolving the personal meaning and contours of human memory and resolving them as the visible and controlled geometry that informs the computer's underlying memory and structuration. 2004, Lauren Rabinovitz, Abraham Geil, Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture, page 316:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unresolving Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unresolved Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unresolved Tense=Past lexicographic
unresolves Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic