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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unswerving
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unswerving loyalty (=loyalty that does not change)
▪ He was rewarded for his unswerving loyalty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
loyalty
▪ A reward for unswerving loyalty, no doubt.
▪ She has always demanded - and got - unswerving loyalty.
▪ All those years of unswerving loyalty to Alphonse Mobuto and this was all it had brought him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A year later, in 1979, a Conservative government was elected with an unswerving commitment to nuclear power.
▪ All those years of unswerving loyalty to Alphonse Mobuto and this was all it had brought him.
▪ For he supports Tottenham Hotspur with joyful and unswerving devotion.
▪ She has always demanded - and got - unswerving loyalty.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unswerving

1690s, from un- (1) "not" + present participle of swerve (v.).

Wiktionary
unswerving

a. Not deviating; not yielding or straying or varying.

WordNet
unswerving
  1. adj. going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside; "some people see evolution as an undeviating upward march from simple organisms to the very complex"; "a straight and narrow tree-lined road unswerving across the lowlands" [syn: undeviating]

  2. firm and dependable especially in loyalty; "a steadfast ally"; "a staunch defender of free speech"; "unswerving devotion"; "unswerving allegiance" [syn: steadfast, staunch]

Usage examples of "unswerving".

Possibly, Susie smiled in recollection, remembering the upturned bottoms, jnst possibly beause the spanker had the unswerving habit of gently palming their rounded rumps for several bewitching moments before the grimmer business in hand commenced.

Rebecca Mary was a Plummer too, but she did not think of that, unless the unswerving determination in her stout little heart was the unconscious recognition of it.

At the last moment, when repentance did not avail, Derwentwater retracted the declarations of loyalty he had made at his trial, and died protesting his unswerving fidelity to the House of Stuart.

Her gaze was unswerving as she watched him come forward, and when another bolt of blinding brightness seared a path across the ebony sky, her eyes flicked downward to his naked loins.

It was the unswerving policy of Rome that it should not be united with the Empire, and against that fixed axiom the strongest dynasty of emperors went to pieces.

Much as religious fundamentalism presents only an idealized caricature of the history of its own beliefs, so does scientism present the history of science as a unswerving march toward Truth, in which earlier errors are systematically replaced with facts.

For his part, it was clear that the Deliverer, Eubeleus, held JEVEX in extraordinary awe and reverence, with an unswerving belief in its abilities that bordered on fanatical.

Though I suppose anywho pursues one goal with unswerving determs vulnerable to that charge.

Unswerving and obedient to the foul legate's orders, that hellish bird plunged onward through shoals of shapeless lurkers and caperers in darkness, and vacuous herds of drifting entities that pawed and groped and groped and pawed.