stedfast
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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Their pain is mixed with "obdurate pride" and "stedfast hate."
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2022
The circumstances were as follows, and they seem to deserve our most stedfast consideration, from their bearing upon the great subject we are considering, the Papal Supremacy.
From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
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
Whose 'lorn submission sav'd his ruin'd host: No father's woes assail'd his stedfast mind; The dearest ties the Lusian chief resign'd.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
So with this distinct definition of the precise danger which he feared, and this soothing assurance of his glad confidence in their stedfast order, the Apostle at last opens his batteries.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander
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