a. and sb. rare. [f. STAND v. (see 9 b, 23) + FAST adv. Cf. HOLDFAST.]
A. adj. Stiff in opinion.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., II. 369. Witness our own W. W. who sometimes seems very positive, and a standfast stickler for his Arianism even to Martyrdom.
B. sb. A fixed or stable position.
1846. Hawthorne, Mosses, II. ix. 162. It seems as if the whole world, both morally and physically, were detached from its old standfasts, and set in rapid motion.
