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staunchly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English staunch Middle English -ly English -ly English staunchly From staunch + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a staunch manner.
   • If Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could order his troops into his neighbor with impunity, surely China’s President Xi Jinping might finally decide to recover Taiwan, the island province that has remained staunchly independent ever since Mao Zedong’s Red Army finished his conquest of the mainland in 1949. 2022 August 30, Donald Kirk, “Could China invade South Korea after Taiwan?”, in The Hill, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2022:
   • This enemy feminism was on the other side of only some aisles from the suffragism of slavers and the protogirlbossism of slave traders (best embodied by the staunchly feminist first woman senator of the US: white supremacist lynching fanatic Rebecca Latimer Felton). 2025, Sophie Lewis, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation, unnumbered page:
   • As stated in the Universal Declaration, we must staunchly pursue our conviction that freedom is not the sole prerogative of the fortunate few, but the inalienable and universal right of all human beings. 1982 December 10, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5003:

Forms

Relateds

staunchness · staunch

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