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jmdict 1822530 Active (id: 2287953)
毅然き然 [sK]
きぜん
1. [adj-t,adv-to]
▶ resolute
▶ firm
▶ dauntless
▶ undaunted



History:
3. A 2024-01-09 03:43:32  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
き然 could potentially be a couple other different words (喟然, 巋然), but the consistency of the usage ratios in the collocations below make it seem like it belongs here.
The other two words are also pretty rare in general.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ 毅然と      │ 172,336 │ 97.8% │
│ き然と      │   2,152 │  1.2% │
│ きぜんと     │   1,773 │  1.0% │
├─ーーーーーーーー─┼─────────┼───────┤
│ 毅然とした態度  │  65,308 │ 97.9% │
│ き然とした態度  │   1,036 │  1.6% │
│ きぜんとした態度 │     385 │  0.6% │
├─ーーーーーーーー─┼─────────┼───────┤
│ 毅然とした対応  │  10,011 │ 97.7% │
│ き然とした対応  │     178 │  1.7% │
│ きぜんとした対応 │      54 │  0.5% │
├─ーーーーーーーー─┼─────────┼───────┤
│ 毅然とした姿勢  │   4,599 │ 98.6% │
│ き然とした姿勢  │      64 │  1.4% │
│ きぜんとした姿勢 │       0 │  0.0% │
╰─ーーーーーーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>き然</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
2. A 2017-11-04 07:01:20  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2017-11-02 17:57:43  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daij, gg5, prog
  Comments:
Not a noun.
  Diff:
@@ -11 +10,0 @@
-<pos>&n;</pos>
@@ -14,3 +13,4 @@
-<gloss>fortitude</gloss>
-<gloss>firmness</gloss>
-<gloss>resolution</gloss>
+<gloss>resolute</gloss>
+<gloss>firm</gloss>
+<gloss>dauntless</gloss>
+<gloss>undaunted</gloss>

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