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Meaning of holdfastness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The ability to serve as a secure basis for attachment.

Examples

“[…] a healthy copartnership of American enterprise and enthusiasm, and English solidity and holdfastness.”

“[…] 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, […]”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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See also

Holding holding action holding cell holding charge holding company holding deal

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