Definition of "stedfast" []

• Variant of steadfast. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Our faith has to be "stedfast," a rampart of assurance, close, compact, and invulnerable."
• "Our faith has to be "stedfast," firm, solid, impenetrable like a wall."
• "Despite his movement's now legitimate role inside the U.S.-allied government, al-Sadr remains stedfast in his opposition to the U.S. presence in Iraq, and showed no signs Saturday of being open to the Americans sticking around."