English

Adjective

steadfaster

1. (rare) comparative form of steadfast: more steadfast
   • 1878, Alfred Webb, A Compendium of Irish Biography: Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen, and of Eminent, M.H. Gill & son, page 179:

     He was a man witty and manful ; a truer man, nor steadfaster, for constancy, fidelity, and love, left he none in Ireland.

   • 1889, W. Clark Russel, MacMillan's Magazine: Marooned, Chapter XXX, page 254:

     God knows that never a shipwrecked eye kept a steadfaster look-out for vessels than I did

   • 1907, Eden Phillpotts, The Whirlwind, McClure, Phillips, page 276:

     The more he tries, the steadfaster shall I stand.