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unsteadfast

  • a word derived from steadfast.
    steadfast
    adjective
    fixed in direction; steadily directed.

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I wanted to breathe the desert’s breath, to drink of its life,—to do it homage and to love it—not for any fleeting beauty, but because my unsteadfast soul found it loveable and strong.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

I heard them breathing but a moment since, But now they are gone, being unsteadfast things.

From The Countess Cathleen by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

To pass along the trunk, rendered slippery by the wet and unsteadfast by the wind, was imminently dangerous.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown

It may be said to pass yawning gulfs ‘on the unsteadfast footing of a spear:’ still it has an actual resting-place and tangible support under it—it is not suspended on nothing.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin

The glances that he fixed upon me were unsteadfast and wild.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown