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Resolute vs Gallant - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between resolute and gallant

is that resolute is convinced; satisfied; sure while gallant is showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.

As adjectives the difference between resolute and gallant

is that resolute is firm, unyielding, determined while gallant is brave, valiant.

As a noun gallant is

fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.

As a verb gallant is

to attend or wait on (a lady).

resolute

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Firm, unyielding, determined.
  • She was resolute in her determination to resist his romantic advances.
    He was resolute in his decision to stay.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Edward is at hand, / Ready to fight; therefore be resolute .
  • * ’ (poem):
  • If the Coward Bumble Bee / In his chimney corner stay, / I, must resoluter be!
  • * {{quote-news
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  • (obsolete) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
  • Usage notes

    * The one-word comparative form resoluter and superlative form resolutest are both well attested, though not as common as the two-word forms “more resolute” and “most resolute”.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * irresolute

    gallant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gallaunt (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Brave, valiant.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
  • Honorable.
  • *
  • Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  • Grand, noble.
  • (lb) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
  • * (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
  • The town is built in a very gallant place.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • our royal, good and gallant ship

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) Fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
  • PROSPERO: [...] this gallant which thou see'st / Was in the wrack; and but he's something stain'd /with grief,—that beauty's canker,—thou mightst call him / A goodly person [...]
  • One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act III, Scene II, verses 140-143
  • The ignominy of that whisper’d tale
    About a midnight gallant , seen to climb
    A window to her chamber neighbour’d near,
    I will from her turn off,
  • An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey .
  • (nautical) topgallant
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To attend or wait on (a lady).
  • to gallant ladies to the play
  • (obsolete) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
  • to gallant a fan

    References

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