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resolutioner

or res·o·lu·tion·ist

[ rez-uh-loo-shuh-ner ]

noun

  1. a person joining in or subscribing to a resolution.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of resolutioner1

First recorded in 1685–95; resolution + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Baillie was a Resolutioner, Sharpe a zealous Resolutioner too; and Baillie, naturally unsuspicious, and biassed in his behalf by that spirit of party which can darken the judgment of even the most discerning, seems to have regarded him as peculiarly the hope of the Church.

Though Baillie was a Resolutioner, he seems to have had some misgivings as to the course he adopted.

The Resolutioner, who wished to repeal the Act of Classes, was too lukewarm: the Remonstrant was too violent.

Two-and-forty came in, including the Resolutioner Douglas, in 1660 the correspondent of Sharp. 

The gift, it appears, had been promised to Principal Leighton, when he had been in London, some time before, on one of his yearly journeys for his own bookish purposes, and certainly neither as Resolutioner nor Protester.

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