STEADFASTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steadfastly mean? 

• STEADFASTLY (adverb)
  The adverb STEADFASTLY has 1 sense:

1. with resolute determination

  Familiarity information: STEADFASTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEADFASTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With resolute determination

Synonyms:

firm; firmly; steadfastly; unwaveringly

Context example:

you must stand firm

Pertainym:

steadfast (marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable)

 Context examples 

“My niece, Em'ly, is alive, sir!” he said, steadfastly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was even sensible of some pleasure, though mixed with regret, on finding how steadfastly both she and her uncle had been persuaded that affection and confidence subsisted between Mr. Darcy and herself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He kept it in his hand and steadfastly proffered it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And first I would have you bear very steadfastly in mind that our setting forth is by no means for the purpose of gaining spoil or exacting ransom, though it may well happen that such may come to us also.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Instead of subsiding as night drew on, it seemed to augment its rush and deepen its roar: the trees blew steadfastly one way, never writhing round, and scarcely tossing back their boughs once in an hour; so continuous was the strain bending their branchy heads northward—the clouds drifted from pole to pole, fast following, mass on mass: no glimpse of blue sky had been visible that July day.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She looked so steadfastly at me: with a kind of doubt, or pity, or suspense in her affection: that I summoned the stronger determination to show her a perfectly cheerful face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With amazement did she first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power; and steadfastly was she persuaded, that he could have no explanation to give, which a just sense of shame would not conceal.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I afterwards meant—steadfastly meant, and purposed to myself—to bear the whole weight of knowing the unworthiness of one to whom you had been so good.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Collins received and returned these felicitations with equal pleasure, and then proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview, with the result of which he trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the refusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)