What is "stedfastness"

Usage examples of "stedfastness".

The exceeding beauty of stedfastness in women clothed Laetitia in graces Clara could not match.

Then they took him to the other side of the cave, and his sight was strengthened to mark the glory of the Sword, where it hung in slings, a little way from the wall, outshining the lights of the cave, and throwing them back with its superior force and stedfastness of lustre.

This I must insist on, as an earnest of your sincerity in all you have said, and of the stedfastness of your resolution, that you obey me in one instance.

Strange to think, she had not since then power to grasp in her abstract mind a notion of stedfastness without or within.

When the catechumens had given full proof of the ripeness of their knowledge, and of the stedfastness of their faith, they were baptized, admitted to the table of the Lord, and styled Fideles.