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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Stanch, Steanch, adj. [Late ME and e.m.E. stawnche (Lydgate), staunche (c1440), stanch (1455-6), OF estanche (12th c. in Larousse).] a. Strongly constructed, substantial. b. fig. Firm of purpose, principled. —a. 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 110.
She lived … in a stanch house, the vestige whereof remains to this very day —b. 1661 Rutherford Testimony to the Work of Reformation (1719) 23.
One that may be trusted as being so steanch and firm to his profession
