Clarify vs Resolute - What's the difference?
clarify | resolute |
To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.
* (rfdate) Ure:
To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
* (rfdate) South:
(ergative) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
* Leave the wine for 24 hours and it will clarify .
(ergative) To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
(obsolete) To glorify.
Firm, unyielding, determined.
* Shakespeare
* ’ (poem):
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(obsolete) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between clarify and resolute
is that clarify is (obsolete) to glorify while resolute is (obsolete) convinced; satisfied; sure.As a verb clarify
is to make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.As an adjective resolute is
firm, unyielding, determined.clarify
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en-verb)- Boiled and clarified .
- To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will.
resolute
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She was resolute in her determination to resist his romantic advances.
- He was resolute in his decision to stay.
- Edward is at hand, / Ready to fight; therefore be resolute .
- If the Coward Bumble Bee / In his chimney corner stay, / I, must resoluter be!
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