Crossword clues for steadfast
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steadfast \Stead"fast\ (-f[.a]st), a. [Stead + fast, that is, fast in place.] [Written also stedfast.]
Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. ``This steadfast globe of earth.''
--Spenser.-
Not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; steady. ``Steadfast eye.''
--Shak.Abide steadfast unto him [thy neighbor] in the time of his trouble.
--Ecclus. xxii. 2 Whom resist steadfast in the faith.
--1 Pet. v. 9.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English stedefæst "secure in position, steady, firm in its place," from stede (see stead) + fæst (see fast (adj.)); similar formation in Middle Low German stedevast, Old Norse staðfastr "steadfast, firm; faithful, staunch, firm in one's mind." Of persons, in English, "unshakable, stubborn, resolute" from c.1200. Related: Steadfastly, steadfastness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Fixed or unchanging; steady. 2 Firmly loyal or constant; unswerving.
WordNet
adj. marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty" [syn: firm, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering]
firm and dependable especially in loyalty; "a steadfast ally"; "a staunch defender of free speech"; "unswerving devotion"; "unswerving allegiance" [syn: staunch, unswerving]
Wikipedia
Steadfast is the fifth studio album by the United Kingdom band Forefather. The album's artwork is done by Martin Hanford. It was released in February 2008.
Steadfast may refer to:
- Steadfast (album), an album by the band Forefather
- USCGC Steadfast (WMEC-623), a United States coast guard cutter
- Steadfast, Belize, a village in Stann Creek District, Belize
- List of people known as the Steadfast, a list of people with the epithet of the Steadfast
'Steadfast ' is the second recording by American jazz pianist John Hicks recorded in 1975 but not released on the Strata-East and Bellaphon Records labels until 1991.
Usage examples of "steadfast".
Steadfast Joaquin, anxious Ling, inscrutable Ament, all looking to him for a deliverance, and a happy ending it was not within his power to deliver.
Steadfast, dart nocked in her atlatl, she crunched up the slope, into the brunt of the wind.
When the day came, I thought all things in this world were loosened from their hold, and that the sure and steadfast earth itself was grown coggly beneath my feet, as I mounted the pulpit.
Alastair, his steadfast chauffeur and a spry, wiry man for his one hundred years, started complaining as soon as Dagon had asked how things were at the castle.
If I had taken her at her word I should have been a steadfast lover, and I do not think it would have taken me long to make her forget her former admirer.
Rolfe remained steadfast, however, and eventually one of the soldiers spoke up, telling the others that he knew from experience that hazelwort would do exactly as Leonie claimed.
Page Lee Hufty, who has been steadfast and unwavering in her love and support of me and this book, I express my deepest gratitude.
HERALD OF ETERNITY: It is the day when all the sons of God Wait in the roofless senate-house, whose floor Is Chaos, and the immovable abyss Frozen by His steadfast word to hyaline .
As he dressed the recollection paled, and presently he laughed at it, for the Mr Kyd who now presented himself to his memory was so honest and generous and steadfast that the other picture seemed too grotesque even for a caricature.
But he showed it in his tenderness when they mated, in his steadfast support, in his willingness to die for her.
He would be night-free, like an Egyptian, steadfast in perfectly suspended equilibrium, pure mystic nodality of physical being.
Now, as an adult, she could see with hindsight that they must have discussed what she was trying to do because they had remained steadfast, so immovable, so united in their calm determination to ensure that while she knew she was secure in their love, their marriage was irretrievably over.
The towns and trading classes were steadfast in loyalty, and the baronage was again driven, as it had been before, to depend on foreign mercenaries.
I can find a way to suitably reward you for your steadfast service, Blad my worthy.
Brescia their wandering prelate had scarcely yet received that strengthening monition of the watching Senate which was to recall him from his hiding-place and hold him steadfast in his cathedral service.