steadfastness

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English

Etymology

From Middle English stedfastnesse, stedefastnesse, from Old English stedefæstnes (“steadfastness”), equivalent to steadfast +‎ -ness.

Noun

steadfastness (countable and uncountable, plural steadfastnesses)

  1. Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty.
  2. Steadfast resolution.
    • 1684, John Bunyan, A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity: Or, An Exhortation to Christians to be Holy, London: B. W. for Benj Alsop, , →OCLC, page 3:
      [H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]

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