Definition of "diehard" []

• Unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change. (adjective)
• Fanatically opposing progress or reform. (adjective)
• Complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs. (adjective)
• A person with such an attitude. (noun)

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• "Kicking and screaming I might add as I have been an IE diehard from the very beginning of time."
• "Certain diehard leftists, on the other hand, insist that had he lived Orwell would have remained faithful to socialism, not to capitalist democracy."
• "And at the same time they are known as diehard opponents of abortion."