Both Uses of
stanch
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- He was—nay, probably may still be—a Bonapartist, and is called Noirtier; I, on the contrary, am a stanch royalist, and style myself de Villefort.†
Chpt 5-6 *
- "An old gentleman," continued the concierge, "a stanch follower of the Bourbons; he had an only daughter, who married M. de Villefort, who had been the king's attorney at Nimes, and afterwards at Versailles."†
Chpt 43-44
Definition:
to stop the flow of a liquid (typically blood); or to stop anything that is harmful