Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty

Usage examples of steadfastness.

O my God, that it may take hold of Thy Book with such steadfastness that the hosts of the world shall have no power over it.

Cheer our hearts through the potency of Thy love and good-pleasure, and bestow upon us steadfastness that we may willingly submit to Thy Will and Thy Decree.

Acting on a sudden proud impulse he raised his head and looked at her with a bold steadfastness,--a critical scrutiny,--a calmly discriminating valuation of her physical charms that for the moment certainly appeared to startle her self-possession, for a deep flush colored the fairness of her face and then faded, leaving her pale as marble.

What causeth this but wilful wretchedness, That all is lost for lack of steadfastness?

The narrative passed into incoherent generalities about life in Auschwitz: the smell from the mass graves where the bodies were being dug up and burned, the black market, the exceptional steadfastness of Jehovah's Witnesses, a kindly SS man, having an affair with a woman in the blockhouse, who, had brought them much good food, It described the rumors of the Russian approach, the distant sound of the guns, the three -day march of thousands of women ill the snow to railroad terminal, the train ride in open coal cars Ravensbruck.