Another word for steadfastness

For example, red paint indicates steadfastness and loyalty while a character with black face paint depicts a fierce, bold nature.
Your mercurial nature and steadfastness makes you perfect for any type of committee (think Yearbook staff), or the head of social functions (like Homecoming).
After preliminary negotiations, in which Bernard was roused by Abelard's steadfastness to put forth all his strength, a council met at Sens (1141), before which Abelard, formally arraigned upon a number of heretical charges, was prepared to plead his cause.
He had early resolved never to be drawn into controversy; and he adhered to his resolution with a steadfastness which is the more extraordinary because he was, both intellectually and morally, of the stuff of which controversialists are made.
Probably I should not consciously and deliberately forsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a like but infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preserves it.

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