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.