grit vs resolution

grit

noun
  • Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude. 

  • A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit. 

  • A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking. 

  • Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge. 

  • Inedible particles in food. 

  • Husked but unground oats. 

  • A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive. 

  • Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction. 

verb
  • To cover with grit. 

  • Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger. 

resolution

noun
  • A strong will, determination. 

  • The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch). 

  • The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc). 

  • The act of discerning detail. 

  • A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting. 

  • The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear. 

  • The degree of fineness of such a separation. 

  • The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup. 

  • The state of being resolute. 

  • The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed. 

  • A statement of intent, a vow 

  • Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made. 

  • In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages. 

  • The act or process of solving; solution. 

How often have the words grit and resolution occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )