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rock-ribbed, a.
[rock n.1]
1. Having ribs of rock.
1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad v. 212 And Me the rock-ribb'd mother gave to fame. 1841Bryant Thanatopsis 38 The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun. 1900Scribner's Mag. Sept. 293/2 Nearer and nearer we drew to the rock-ribbed, ice-encompassed shore.
2. fig. Resolute, uncompromising, staunch; esp. of political allegiance. orig. U.S.
1887Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 3 May 414 Mr. Straus is a rock-ribbed Democrat. 1911H. S. Harrison Queed 292 Various feelings had gradually stiffened an early general approval into a rock-ribbed resolve. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. (1926) I. i. xvi. 122 Clyde always struck her as one who was not any too..rock-ribbed morally or mentally. 1950Manch. Guardian 20 Feb. 6/6 The dyed-in-the-wool Democrat can be fanatical in devotion to his party's creed and traditions. So can the rock-ribbed Republican. 1961Economist 28 Oct. 341/2 He is a man of such rock-ribbed integrity. 1969Daily Tel. 11 Oct. 12 A Massachusetts seat that has always been held by rockribbed Republicans. 1976Publishers Weekly 16 Apr. 88/1 Goldwater, rockribbed in his sincerity, speaks for many Americans currently disenchanted with Washington's government-by-bureaucracy. |