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"ref": "1721, John Strype, “The Lady Mary’s Concern with the King and Council, for Retaining Mass in Her Family. […]”, in Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and Its Reformation, under the Reigns of King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. and Queen Mary the First: […], volume III, London: […] [J. Barfield] for Samuel Bagster, […], published 1816, →OCLC, book II, page 7:",
"text": "And on this occasion she [Lady Mary, later Mary I of England] wrote the king a letter (which these noblemen seem to be the carriers of) chiefly to shew how unwavering she continued in her formerly declared purpose about religion; […]",
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"ref": "[1800?], S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Night-scene: A Dramatic Fragment”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC, page 140:",
"text": "[B]y that winding passage, to that bower / I now will go—all objects there will teach me / Unwavering love, and singleness of heart.",
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"ref": "1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “A Brief Discourse of the True Grounds of the Certainty of Faith in Points of Religion”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Joseph Downing […], published 1713, →OCLC, page 579:",
"text": "For, foraſmuch as Faith properly ſo called is nothing but an unvvavering Aſſent to ſome Doctrine propoſed upon the ground of infallible Teſtimony, there muſt be ſome Reaſon to perſuade us that that Teſtimony is infallible; […]",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guǒjué",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "果決 /果决"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "järkkymätön"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "vankkumaton"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "felsenfest"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "standhaft"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "unbeirrbar"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "eltántoríthatatlan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "hajthatatlan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "megingathatatlan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "tántoríthatatlan"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "certus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "fīxus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "indubius"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "prōmptus"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "gyn leaystey"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "shickyr"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "kiriūka"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "ngākau titikaha"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not doubting or unsure",
"word": "titikaha"
}
],
"word": "unwavering"
}
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