steadfastness

How To Use steadfastness In A Sentence

• Most were Sikhs, Rajputs or Gurkhas, people whom the British classed as ‘martial races’ and they were much admired for their bearing, courage and steadfastness.
• His true believers, with the steadfastness that comes from monomania, are energized by anger about the war.
• The softer side, for example the love and steadfastness of Antigone, is simply uncut hay for the chaff-cutter, the material and not the form of life.
• Constantine had witnessed the unusual steadfastness, honesty and duty of the Christians, just as he had seen the horrors of persecution while with Diocletian and Galerius in the East. Santa Elena, discoverer of the Holy Cross
• But rare is the book on evolution theory that tells the story of steadfastness.
• I must tell you of a record of St Bede's, which shows how gladly Ireland in old days, as ever, shared the priceless gift which she of all countries, received with the most passionate entireness and held with the most unswerving steadfastness. Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days
• There was no brag or bounce about him, no hideousness of noise or mafficking, no hatred of foreigners or cruelty of uncharity, but a grim steadfastness of determination which meant that, so far as he might, Bates would do or die. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914
• While tenacity is an admirable quality to some degree; after all, he was re-elected by conveying his "steadfastness" versus Kerry's perceived waffling, it can be a debilitating and cumbersome attribute. October 2005
• They are the lessons of steadfastness and trust, honor and humor and, above all, grace under pressure.
• He was said chief by reason of the principality in prelation; a stone by reason of his steadfastness in his passion; blaming with his mouth by reason of constancy in his preaching. The Golden Legend, vol. 4