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Definition
firmly consistent — especially in loyalty
- There was a game room, where a young, sunburned soldier was tilting a pinball machine with a kind of steadfast resentment.p. 591.3
- How can they be pardoned for Vietnam, for their conduct in Nicaragua, for their steadfast and gross contribution to the proliferation of nuclear arms?p. 230.2
- There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence.p. 264.6
- " And if that morsel could not satisfy our hunger to be comforted, Pastor Merrill led us further into Lamentations: " Tor the Lord will not cast off for ever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.'p. 574.2
There are no more uses of "steadfast" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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