steadfastly

Adverb

(comparative more steadfastly, superlative most steadfastly)

In a steadfast manner; firmly; with conviction; resolutely.
He steadfastly refuses to go out with her.

Origin

steadfast +‎ -ly

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She agreed, but steadfastly refused to adopt on that issue.
As he had said, his right hand was steadfastly exposed to the flames.
While Dean had wandered up to the area with Cynthia's son Randy on a few occasions, she had steadfastly stayed away.
He continued steadfastly to oppose the taxation of the American colonists, and signed, in 1778, the protest of the Lords in favour of an address to the king on the subject of the manifesto of the American commissioners.
Sensier at this date (1850) Millet expressed his resolve to break once and for all with mythological and undraped subjects, and the names of the principal works painted subsequently will show how steadfastly this resolution was kept.

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