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stal⋅wart

  [stawl-wert]
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–adjective
1. strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust.
2. strong and brave; valiant: a stalwart knight.
3. firm, steadfast, or uncompromising: a stalwart supporter of the U.N.
–noun
4. a physically stalwart person.
5. a steadfast or uncompromising partisan: They counted on the party stalwarts for support in the off-year campaigns.
Origin:
1325–75; ME (Scots), var. of stalward, earlier stalwurthe; see stalworth

Related forms:
stal⋅wart⋅ly, adverb
stal⋅wart⋅ness, noun

Stal⋅wart

  [stawl-wert]
–noun
a conservative Republican in the 1870s and 1880s, esp. one opposed to civil service and other reforms during the administrations of presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield.
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stal·wart   (stôl'wərt)   
adj.  
  1. Having or marked by imposing physical strength.
  2. Firm and resolute; stout.
n.  
  1. One who is physically and morally strong.
  2. One who steadfastly supports an organization or cause: party stalwarts.

[Middle English, alteration of stalworth, from Old English stǣlwierthe, serviceable, probably alteration of *statholwierthe, steadfast : stathol, foundation; see staddle + weorth, valuable; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.]
stal'wart·ly adv., stal'wart·ness n.
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Stalwart

Stal"wart\, Stalworth \Stal"worth\, a. [OE. stalworth, AS. st[ae]lwyr[eth] serviceable, probably originally, good at stealing, or worth stealing or taking, and afterwards extended to other causes of estimation. See Steal, v. t., Worth, a.] Brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent. "A stalwart tiller of the soil." --Prof. Wilson.

Fair man be was and wise, stalworth and bold. --R. of Brunne.

Note: Stalworth is now disused, or bur little used, stalwart having taken its place.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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stalwart 
1375, Scottish variant of O.E. stælwierðe "good, serviceable," probably a contracted compound of staðol "foundation, support" (from P.Gmc. *stathlaz) + wierðe "good, excellent, worthy" (see 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Stalwart

A description of companies that have large capitalizations and provide investors with slow but steady and dependable growth prospects.

Investopedia Commentary

The annual gain that would be viewed as the norm for investing in stalwarts is about 10% to 12%. Stalwarts will by no means become tenbaggers overnight, mainly because of their large capitalization, but they are usually a good source of fairly predictable returns.

Peter Lynch popularized this term in his book "One Up on Wall Street," where he shows that the price chart of a stalwart compares neither to a topographic map of Delaware nor to one of Mount Everest, but assumes a place somewhere in the middle.

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