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sted·fast

 (stĕd′făst′, -fəst)
adj.
Variant of steadfast.
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stedfast

(ˈstɛdfəst; -ˌfɑːst)
adj
a less common spelling of steadfast
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stead•fast

or sted•fast

(ˈstɛdˌfæst, -ˌfɑst, -fəst)

adj.
1. fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
2. firm in purpose, resolution, faith, etc.: a steadfast friend.
3. unwavering, as resolution, faith, or adherence.
4. firmly established, as an institution or a state of affairs.
5. firmly fixed in place or position; stable.
[before 1000; Middle English stedefast, Old English stedefæst]
stead′fast`ly, adv.
stead′fast`ness, n.
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The children throve under the paternal rule, for accurate, stedfast John brought order and obedience into Babydom, while Meg recovered her spirits and composed her nerves by plenty of wholesome exercise, a little pleasure, and much confidential conversation with her sensible husband.
Yet, John Harmon enjoyed it all merrily, and told his wife, when he and she were alone, that her natural ways had never seemed so dearly natural as beside this foil, and that although he did not dispute her being her father's daughter, he should ever remain stedfast in the faith that she could not be her mother's.
Silverman, a vocal supporter of numerous liberal causes, on Thursday posted a video on Twitter of the sermon and said, "This is Adam Fannin of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Florida and he is going to get me killed."
In addition, we received a note of thanks from Project Stedfast for our recent donation to them.
Nevertheless, Christian values were an integral part of being in the BB whose motto remains "Sure and Stedfast" - retaining the old spelling of the latter word.
He said: "We have a sure and stedfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine."
Between pages 954 and 964 of EMIR we find the following entries: "St Peter's Church, Drogheda"; "St Stephen's Singers", which redirects the reader to "University College Dublin"; "Stamps and Currency"; "Stanford, [Sir] Charles Villiers"; "Stanford, John James"; "Stars of Heaven, The"; "Stedfast Band"; "Stevenson, [Stephenson], John Andrew"; "Stewart, Louis"; "Stewart, Robert Prescott"; "Stiff Little Fingers"; "Stockton's Wing"; "Stokes, Mary", which redirects to "Mary Stokes Band, The"; and "Storer [nee Clark], Elizabeth".
Whereupon (as it is the custome of men to prosecute small beginnings with a stedfast study), her father Dibutades, a Potter by his trade, cut the space comprised within the lines, and filling it with clay, he made a pattern and hardened it in the fire, proferring to Greece the first rudiments of picture & Statuary.
"Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions, "Majesties, sovran voices, agonies, "Creations and destroyings, all at once "Pour into the wide hollows of my brain, "And deify me, as if some blithe wine "Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk, "And so become immortal."-Thus the God, While his enkindled eyes, with level glance Beneath his white soft temples, stedfast kept Trembling with light upon Mnemosyne.
The band is known as the Bugles and Drums of the Stedfast Association.