Meanings
adjective
- comparativerarecomparative form of steadfast: more steadfast
The more he tries, the steadfaster shall I stand.
1907, Eden Phillpotts, The Whirlwind, McClure, Phillips, page 2762 more examples
He was a man witty and manful ; a truer man, nor steadfaster, for constancy, fidelity, and love, left he none in Ireland.
1878, Alfred Webb, A Compendium of Irish Biography: Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen, and of Eminent, M.H. Gill & son, page 179God knows that never a shipwrecked eye kept a steadfaster look-out for vessels than I did
1889, W. Clark Russel, chapter XXX, in MacMillan's Magazine: Marooned, page 254
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