stalwart

stalwart
stalwart (adj.) late 14c., Scottish variant of O.E. stælwierðe "good, serviceable," probably a contracted compound of staðol "foundation, support" (from P.Gmc. *stathlaz, from PIE root *sta- "to stand, set down, make or be firm;" see STET (Cf. stet)) + wierðe "good, excellent, worthy" (see WORTH (Cf. worth)). Another theory traces the first element of stælwierðe to O.E. stæl "place," from P.Gmc. *stælaz. In U.S. political history, applied 1877 by Blaine to Republicans who refused to give up their hostility to and distrust of the South.

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