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Vinony

steadfastness

noun

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Middle English stedfastnesse, stedefastnesse, from Old English stedefæstnes (“steadfastness”), equivalent to steadfast + -ness.

  1. Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty.
  2. A steadfast resolution.

    “[H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]”