英和和英

形容詞

stanchest

1. superlative form of stanch: most stanch
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 205:

     The knight needed no second command: he ordered a band of his stanchest followers to horse—men who had fought by his side in Flanders, and there learnt more reverence for Sir Captain than Sir Priest.

   • 1963, Eisenhower, Dwight, Mandate for Change 1953-1956‎^[1], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, LCCN 63-18447, OCLC 64309101, page 81:

     When the mainland of China fell, one of America's stanchest personal allies was driven, with what forces he had left, across the Formosa Straits to that island which is now the remaining remnant of Free China.