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fastness
UK /ˈfɑːs(t)nəs/ US /ˈfæs(t)nəs/
noun 5
Collocations
2VERB + FASTNESS
run, threatens
FASTNESS + NOUN
bug
Definitions
noun
1
The quality or state of being fast (in various senses).
[T]he thing, as it is, having firſt taken vp her ſtand in the memory, and there by the way of knowledge and witting, imprinted it-ſelfe, it were hard it ſhould not repreſent it ſelfe to the imagination, diſplacing and ſupplanting falſehood, which therein can have no ſuch footing, or ſetled faſtneſſe: […]
[T]his is the ſure, infallible Teſt of Love, that the Meaſure of its Strength is to be taken by the Faſtneſs of its Hold.
2
The quality or state of being fast (in various senses).
3
The quality or state of being fast (in various senses).
[Frog:] Why are all of us fleein'? What dire peril threatens our sylvan fastness? [Bug:] Just run! Your fastness shouldn't be too slow.
4
The quality or state of being fast (in various senses).
5
The quality or state of being fast (in various senses).
But now his cruelty ſo ſore ſhe drad, / That to thoſe fennes for faſtneſſe ſhe did fly, / And there her ſelfe did hyde from his hard tyranny.
The Foes had left the faſtneſs of their Place, / Prevail'd in Fight, and had his Men in Chace.
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[T]he thing, as it is, having firſt taken vp her ſtand in the memory, and there by the way of knowledge and witting, imprinted it-ſelfe, it were hard it ſhould not repreſent it ſelfe to the imaginatio
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[T]his is the ſure, infallible Teſt of Love, that the Meaſure of its Strength is to be taken by the Faſtneſs of its Hold.
Wiktionary03
[Frog:] Why are all of us fleein'? What dire peril threatens our sylvan fastness? [Bug:] Just run! Your fastness shouldn't be too slow.
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