Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - resolved

If you are resolved to do something, you are determined to do it. (FORMAL) Barnes was resolved to moving on when his contract expired. ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf RESONANCE (resonances) 1. If something has a resonance for someone, it has a special meaning or is particularly important to to them. The ideas of order, security, family, religion and country had the same resonance for them as for Michael. N-VAR 2. If a sound has resonance, it is deep, clear, and strong. His voice had lost its resonance; it was tense and strained. N-UNCOUNT