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holdfastness

noun

Etymology

From holdfast + -ness.

Definitions

  1. The ability to serve as a secure basis for attachment.

    • […] a healthy copartnership of American enterprise and enthusiasm, and English solidity and holdfastness.
    • […] the Furies of hate and many other allegorical figures of later times are potencies of a kind, but they are without affirmative subsistency and holdfastness, unfavourable to ideal representation, […]

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