| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Unwavering firmness of character, action, or will: decidedness, decision, decisiveness, determination, firmness, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, toughness, will, willpower. See CERTAIN, STRONG. 2. The proper activity of a person or thing: function, job, role, task. See DO. 3. What one intends to do or achieve: aim, ambition, design, end, goal, intent, intention, mark, meaning, object, objective, point, target, view, why. Idioms: end in view, why and wherefore. See PLANNED, PURPOSE. | | VERB: | To have in mind as a goal or purpose: aim, contemplate, design, intend, mean1, plan, project, propose, target. Regional : mind. See PLANNED, PURPOSE.
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