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steadfastness

noun

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from stedefæstnes — “steadfastness”
  2. inherited from stedfastnesse

Definitions

  1. Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty.

  2. A steadfast resolution.

    • [H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at steadfastness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at steadfastness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at steadfastness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA