holdfastness
nounEtymology From holdfast + -ness.
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The ability to serve as a secure basis for attachment.
- […] a healthy copartnership of American enterprise and enthusiasm, and English solidity and holdfastness.1865, Samuel Bowles, Across the Continent, page 206:
- […] 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, […]1962, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henry Paolucci, Hegel on Tragedy, page 135: