staunchly
/stˈɔntʃli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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)."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more staunchly (comparative)
staunchlier (comparative, rare)
most staunchly (superlative)
staunchliest (rare, superlative)