ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Holdfastness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Holdfastness is a noun meaning The ability to serve as a secure basis for attachment.

Meaning

The ability to serve as a secure basis for attachment.

Example Sentences

[…] a healthy copartnership of American enterprise and enthusiasm, and English solidity and holdfastness.
[…] the Furies of hate and many other allegorical figures of later times are potencies of a kind, but they are without affirmative subsistency and holdfastness, unfavourable to ideal representation, […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fastness, steadfastness, stedfastness, adhesion, attachedness, affixedness.

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