steadfastness

perseverance; continuance (inaction); permanence (absence of change); firmness (stability)., constancy, steadiness; singleness of purpose, tenacity of purpose; persistence, plodding, patience; sedulity (industry); pertinacy, pertinacity, pertinaciousness; iteration, bottom, game, pluck, stamina, backbone, grit; indefatigability, indefatigableness; bulldog courage.

persevere, persist; hold on, hold out; die in the last ditch, be in at the death; stick to, cling to, adhere to; stick to one's text, keep on; keep to one's course, keep to one's ground, maintain one's course, maintain one's ground; go all lengths, go through fire and water; bear up, keep up, hold up; plod; stick to work (work); continue; follow up; die in harness, die at one's post.

persevering, constant; steady, steadfast; undeviating, unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unsleeping, unflagging, undrooping; steady as time; unintermitting, unremitting; plodding; industrious; strenuous; pertinacious; persisting, persistent., solid, sturdy, staunch, stanch, true to oneself; unchangeable; unconquerable (strong); indomitable, game to the last, indefatigable, untiring, unwearied, never tiring.

through evil report and good report, through thick and thin, through fire and water; per fas et nefas; without fail, sink or swim, at any price, vogue la galere.

determination, will; iron will, unconquerable will; will of one's own, decision, resolution; backbone; clear grit, true grit, grit [U.S. & Can.]; sand, strength of mind, strength of will; resolve (intent); firmness (stability); energy, manliness, vigor; game, pluck; resoluteness (courage); zeal; aplomb; desperation; devotion, devotedness., mastery over self; self control, self command, self possession, self reliance, self government, self restraint, self conquest, self denial; moral courage, moral strength; perseverance; tenacity; obstinacy; bulldog; British lion.

have determination; know one's own mind; be resolved; make up one's mind, will, resolve, determine; decide (judgement); form a determination, come to a determination, come to a resolution, come to a resolve; conclude, fix, seal, determine once for all, bring to a crisis, drive matters to an extremity; take a decisive step (choice); take upon oneself (undertake)., devote oneself to, give oneself up to; throw away the scabbard, kick down the ladder, nail one's colors to the mast, set one's back against the wall, set one's teeth, put one's foot down, take one's stand; stand firm (stability); steel oneself; stand no nonsense, not listen to the voice of the charmer., buckle to; buckle oneself put one's shoulder to the wheel, lay one's shoulder to the wheel, set one's shoulder to the wheel; put one's heart into; run the gauntlet, make a dash at, take the bull by the horns; rush in medias res, plunge in medias res; go in for; insist upon, make a point of; set one's heart upon, set one's mind upon., stick at nothing, stop at nothing; make short work of (activity); not stick at trifles; go all lengths, go the limit, go the whole hog; persist (persevere); go through fire and water, ride the tiger, ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm.

resolved; determined; strong-willed, strong-minded; resolute (brave); self-possessed; decided, definitive, peremptory, tranchant; unhesitating, unflinching, unshrinking; firm, iron, gritty [U.S.], indomitable, game to the backbone; inexorable, relentless, not to be shaken, not to be put down; tenax propositi; inflexible (hard); obstinate; steady (persevering)., earnest, serious; set upon, bent upon, intent upon., steel against, proof against; in utrumque paratus.

resolutely; in earnest, in good earnest; seriously, joking apart, earnestly, heart and soul; on one's mettle; manfully, like a man, with a high hand; with a strong hand (exertion)., at any rate, at any risk, at any hazard at any price, at any cost, at any sacrifice; at all hazards, at all risks, at all events; a bis ou a blanc; cost what it may; coute; a tort et a travers; once for all; neck or nothing; rain or shine.

stability; immutability; unchangeableness; constancy; stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb., establishment, fixture; rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots., permanence; obstinacy.

be firm; stick fast; stand firm, keep firm, remain firm; weather the storm, stay the course, stick to the course, keep the faith, don't give in, don't buckle under., settle, establish, stablish, ascertain, fix, set, stabilitate; retain, keep hold; make good, make sure; fasten (join); set on its legs, float; perpetuate., settle down; strike roots, put down roots, take root; take up one's abode [more]; build one's house on a rock.

unchangeable, immutable; unaltered, unalterable; not to be changed, constant; permanent; invariable, undeviating; stable, durable; perennial (diuturnal)., fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced; confirmed, valid; fiducial; immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted; settled, established; vested; incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable., tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock; firmly seated, firmly established; deep-rooted, ineradicable; inveterate; obstinate., transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded., indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable, irreducible; indissoluble, indissolvable; indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous; insusceptible, insusceptible of change.

tenacity, toughness, strength; (cohesion); grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion) [more]; sequacity; stubbornness (obstinacy); glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquididty) [more]., leather; white leather, whitleather; gristle, cartilage.

be tenacious; resist fracture.

tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly; cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather; stubborn (obstinate).