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Steadfastness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty.

n. Steadfast resolution.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Firmness; strength.

n. Stability and firmness; fixedness in place or position.

n. Stability of mind or purpose; resolution; constancy; faithfulness; endurance.

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

n. loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty

n. steadfast resolution

Word Usage

"W. deserves credit for a certain steadfastness in the War on Terror, but his administration is suffused with the sort of hubris, sense of entitlement to power, and belief in the ameliorative powers of government action (in both the foreign and domestic realms) that one normally associates with the worst types of statists."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

loyalty trueness resolve firmness resolution

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

firmness fixedness constancy

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

faithfulness steadiness intrepidity fearlessness self-sacrifice