hard-and-fast
adjective
strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated.
hard-and-fastness
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a word derived from
hard-and-fast.
Example Sentences
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And he must there choose and stick and be consistent—and that is the hard-and-fastness and the vise.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
