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faithful

/ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/ adjective B1
  1. Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
  2. Having faith.
  3. Reliable; worthy of trust.
  4. Consistent with reality.
  5. Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
  6. Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
  7. Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.
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I solemnly swear to be faithful to my bosom friend, Diana Barry, as long as the sun and moon shall endure.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 84 · C1
"That will be Sam Merton—the faithful but rather fatuous Sam.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 34 · B2
“Oh, certainly,” cried his faithful assistant, “no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 42 · B2
But my heart will ever be faithful to thee.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 125 · C1

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