WORD OF THE DAY: Stalwart

Posted on October 25, 2016 ·
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\STAWL-wert\
adjective
1. firm, steadfast, or uncompromising: a stalwart supporter of the U.N.
2. strong and brave; valiant: a stalwart knight.
Quotes
Throughout Europe, Social Democrats have long since shifted from the kind of stalwartideology that Sanders now pushes toward what Germans called the Neue Mitte (New Center) and those in other countries referred to as the Third Way.
— Russell Shorto, “Bernie Sanders’s Forty-Year-Old Idea,” The New Yorker, April 17, 2016
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