stalwart
adjective
strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust.
stalwartness
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a word derived from
stalwart.
Example Sentences
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One surprise was the almost instantaneous financial fragility of museums and the stalwartness of art galleries of all shapes and sizes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
Down below, of course, Charlton Heston practices his customary agreeable stalwartness as the captain of the disintegrating sub.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
For all its stalwartness its life had already been long, and if it should die—she closed her eyes as though to shut out a horror, and a shudder ran through her body.
From The Roof Tree by Lee F. Conrey
But Jerrold, while believing in Thackeray's hatred of the snob, more than suspected him of being a snob himself; and Thackeray felt not less convinced of the hollowness of Jerrold's "stalwartness."
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
