- a variation of steadfast.
stedfast
Americanadjective
adjective
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Their pain is mixed with "obdurate pride" and "stedfast hate."
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2022
Oh! what defence, if fix'd on him, he spy The languid sweetness of the stedfast eye!
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
Some rallied about their officer, and prepared to meet the shock, others spurred their horses forward with the idea of avoiding it, only to find themselves checked by their more stedfast comrades.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang
If you do not free yourself from me, you will fall with me; but if you quit me, and give up yourself to him, you will be stedfast and immoveable.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle
And therfore of you may be saide that ye were alway stedfast and obeieng youre souvereyn unto the jupardie and perille of dethe.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
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