Staunch

/stɔːn(t)ʃ/ · adjective

Meaning

Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate; watertight.
2. Strongly built; also, in good or strong condition.
3. Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.
4. Dependable, loyal, reliable, trustworthy.
5. Cautious, restrained.
6. Stubborn, intransigent.
7. Alternative spelling of stanch.
8. (obsolete) That which stanches or checks a flow.

Example Sentences

Yet if I knevv, / VVhat Hoope ſhould hold vs ſtaunch from edge to edge / Ath'vvorld [of the world]: I vvould perſue it.

Our Proviſions held out vvell, our Ship vvas ſtaunch, and our Crevv all in good Health; but vve lay in the utmoſt diſtreſs for VVater.

Hovv goodly, and hovv to be vviſht vvere ſuch an obedient unanimity as this, vvhat a fine conformity vvould it ſtarch us all into? doubtles a ſtanch and ſolid peece of frame-vvork, as any January could freeze together.

[T]he house a stanch good old building, and what was singular, some of the roomes floor'd dove-tail-wise without a nail, exactly close. One of the closetts is parquetted with plaine deale, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.

[T]he VVorld continues ſtill as firm and ſtaunch as it vvas three thouſand years ago; and vvhy hereafter it ſhould founder and decay more than it hath done for ſo many Ages heretofore, vvhat reaſon can be given?

This part of the castle was burned last autumn; but it is now under repair, and the wall of the tower is still stanch and strong.

Without our staunch front line the enemy would have split the regiment.

VVe may commend / A Gentlemans modeſty, manners, and fine language, / […] / Yet, though he obſerue, and vvaſte his ſtate vpon vs, / If he be ſtanch and bid not for the ſtocke / That vve vvere borne to traffick vvith; the truth is / VVe care not for his company.

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Word Forms

• stauncher
• staunchest
• stanch
• staunches
• staunching
• staunched

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