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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1687
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Unstedfastly, adv. [e.m.E. unstedfastly (1559); Unsted(e)fast adj.] Unsteadily. — 1687 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XXVII 132.
You most not incline so fare forward as that it make you stand the more unstedfastly and waver a little in bringing down the stroak
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