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.
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- adverb In a
steadfast manner;firmly ; withconviction ;resolutely .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with resolute determination
Etymologies
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Examples
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And yet both groups remain steadfastly committed to the Democratic party.
A wake for the Republicans? Steven E. Levingston 2010
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And yet both groups remain steadfastly committed to the Democratic party.
Dylan Loewe: Another 1994? Or Another 1946? Dylan Loewe 2010
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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
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And yet both groups remain steadfastly committed to the Democratic party.
Dylan Loewe: Another 1994? Or Another 1946? Dylan Loewe 2010
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The A's remain steadfastly in Pena's corner, though a brief trip to the minors for regrouping isn't out of the question.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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