holdfastness

English

Etymology

holdfast +‎ -ness

Noun

holdfastness (uncountable)

1. The ability to serve as a secure basis for attachment.
   • 1865, Samuel Bowles, Across the Continent, page 206:

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

   • 1962, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henry Paolucci, Hegel on Tragedy, page 135:

     […] 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, […]