All 5 Uses of
staunch
in
Gone with the Wind
- He was staunchly Presbyterian, even though his family were Catholic, and the thought of his daughter becoming a nun was even worse than that of her marrying Gerald O'Hara.†
Chpt 1.3
- But then, a divorce was unthinkable; and Ellen and Gerald, staunch Catholics that they were, would never permit her to marry a divorced man.†
Chpt 2.16 *
- " 'We are staunch Union sympathizers,' " mimicked the old lady, twanging the words through her long thin nose.†
Chpt 3.26
- A splendid fellow—one of the staunch Union patriots from whom I used to buy muskets and hoop skirts for the Confederacy.†
Chpt 4.36
- She, a member of an old and staunchly Confederate family, a planter's family, had gone over to the enemy and by so doing had brought shame on every family in the County.†
Chpt 4.40
Definition:
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(staunch as in: a staunch ally) firm and dependable especially in loyalty