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Stead"fast (?), a. [Stead + fast, that is, fast in place.] [Written also stedfast.] 1. Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. "This steadfast globe of earth."
Spenser.
2. Not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; steady. "Steadfast eye."
Shak.
Abide steadfast unto him [thy neighbor] in the time of his trouble.
Ecclus. xxii. 23.
Whom resist steadfast in the faith.
1 Pet. v. 9.
© Webster 1913.
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