Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a steadfast manner.
  • Steadily; fixedly; intently.
  • Assuredly; certainly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a steadfast manner; firmly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a steadfast manner; firmly; with conviction; resolutely.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with resolute determination

Etymologies

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steadfast +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • And yet both groups remain steadfastly committed to the Democratic party.

    A wake for the Republicans? Steven E. Levingston 2010

  • And yet both groups remain steadfastly committed to the Democratic party.

    Dylan Loewe: Another 1994? Or Another 1946? Dylan Loewe 2010

  • Leave it to America to want a broken system to remain steadfastly in place as a National Treasure ... so as to flag future generations to our incompetence and stubbornness as a culture.

    Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers 2009

  • And yet both groups remain steadfastly committed to the Democratic party.

    Dylan Loewe: Another 1994? Or Another 1946? Dylan Loewe 2010

  • The A's remain steadfastly in Pena's corner, though a brief trip to the minors for regrouping isn't out of the question.

    USATODAY.com - Pena's refrain: I can only be me 2002

  • But he steadfastly refused, whereupon they put him to death after the manner described in the tale in the case of Bertric, while he called steadfastly upon

    Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune 1863

  • This confusion of the verbal forms creates an problem down the line with the idea of "steadfastly", even if the writer of this document and I can’t think the bishop would have misquoted the Motu Proprio, had actually quoted the M.P. accurately.

    Compilation of recent analyses of AJ TLM policy loyalcatholic 2007

  • This confusion of the verbal forms creates an problem down the line with the idea of "steadfastly", even if the writer of this document and I can’t think the bishop would have misquoted the Motu Proprio, had actually quoted the M.P. accurately.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Luxury Home 2007

  • He held, as some do at the present day, that "if the law be unjust, then is it, _ipso facto_, void and of no force:" so that "the laws against recusants -- are to be esteemed as no laws by such as steadfastly believe these [Romish rites] to be necessary observances of the true religion ...

    It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • The Bush administration, though, did not follow this procedure for those brought to Guantanamo; it did not provide them any hearings and for years steadfastly maintained that it did not need to do so.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

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