The Only Use of
staunch
in
Tuck Everlasting
- ...the Tucks were her friends. She had done it because—in spite of everything, she loved them. This of all things her family understood, and afterward they drew together staunchly around her.
p. 130.3staunchly = firmly and dependable
Definitions:
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(1)
(staunch as in: a staunch ally) firm and dependable especially in loyalty
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, staunch can mean water-tight as for a ship that does not leak.
Staunch is also sometimes used to mean stanch (to stop the flow of something--especially blood), but stanch is the generally recommended word for that meaning.