stedfast
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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Their pain is mixed with "obdurate pride" and "stedfast hate."
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2022
Nor this alone his stedfast soul display'd: Wide o'er the land he wav'd the awful blade Of red-arm'd Justice.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
But all their Supplications were fruitless; the Elector was stedfast in his Resolution to punish Heidelberg, and abandon'd it for ever.
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art,
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
Presently Uncle Godfrey looked up, and, meeting Chris's stedfast gaze, stared back in silence.
From That Little Beggar by Hall, E. King
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