full-stedfast

Updated: July 9, 2026

And ever, when they sing that hymn of blessed Mary, I seem again to be a-marching with all the triumph of a noble lad in the successful doings of his first great enterprise over the wind-swept grass of the Vale up to the Castle gate marching with a great army, that knows naught of sin and guile, full-stedfast and full-faithful through all its sunny ranks.

William J. Ferrar - The Fall of the Grand Sarrasin : Being a Chronicle of Sir Nigel de Bessin, Knight, of Things that Happed in Guernsey Island, in the Norman Seas, in and about the Year One Thousand and Fifty-Seven