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    The quality of being staunch — the steady, unshakeable loyalty itself, thought of as a thing a person has. You would use it in a sentence like "his staunchness surprised everyone", where you are naming the trait rather than describing an action. It is uncountable: staunchness, never "a staunchness" or "staunchnesses". Be aware that this is the least used member of its family by a wide margin. English speakers will understand it, but in real writing they far more often use the adjective (a staunch friend) or the adverb (staunchly loyal), or reach for a noun — loyalty, steadfastness, devotion. If you want your English to sound natural, learn staunch and staunchly first and keep this one as a word you recognise rather than one you produce.

    堅定、忠貞不移(性格特質)

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組成staunch + -ness. The ending -ness is a very old English way of turning an adjective into the name of a quality — kind becomes kindness, dark becomes darkness, staunch becomes staunchness.

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  • staunchthe adjective this noun is built from
  • staunchlythe adverb from the same adjective

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

staunchnessnoun

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    Property of being staunch.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。