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stand fast

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In artillery, the order at which all action on the position ceases immediately.
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Verb1.stand fast - refuse to abandon one's opinion or belief
hold firm, stand pat, stand firm
insist, take a firm stand - be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; "I must insist!"
hunker down - hold stubbornly to a position; "The wife hunkered down and the husband's resistance began to break down"


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So saying he unbuckled his baldric with the bugle, took a feather from his cap, and gave them to Wamba; then drew a vizard from his pouch, and, repeating his charges to them to stand fast, went to execute his purposes of reconnoitring.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
Then was the time for the tall spars to stand fast in the great uproar.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Suppose now that there were two such magic rings, and the just put on one of them and the unjust the other;,no man can be imagined to be of such an iron nature that he would stand fast in justice.
The Republic by Plato View in context
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