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Foursquare   /fˈɔrskwˈɛr/   Listen
Foursquare

noun
1.
(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon.  Synonym: square.
adjective
1.
Characterized by firm and unwavering conviction.
adverb
1.
In a square position.
2.
With firmness and conviction; without compromise.  Synonyms: squarely, straightforwardly.  "Dealt straightforwardly with all issues"





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"Foursquare" Quotes from Famous Books



... Further, the word "state" seems to denote immobility according to 1 Cor. 15:48, "Be ye steadfast (stabiles) and immovable"; wherefore Gregory says (Hom. xxi in Ezech.): "The stone is foursquare, and is stable on all sides, if no disturbance will make it fall." Now it is virtue that enables us "to act with immobility," according to Ethic. ii, 4. Therefore it would seem that a state is acquired by every ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... and his square stolidity was a thing at which to marvel. Had he been taller, had his beard been pointed rather than square, he would have been graceful and even picturesque—but his figure, as he strode along, showed foursquare, as though it had been hewn out of wood; one of those pale, almost white, honey-coloured woods would give the effect of his fair beard and eyebrows. His thick red lips were more startling than ever, curved as they ...
— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole
... below, his head and shoulders in the pilot-house. The upper tier of bars is separated from the second by an open space of an inch, through which the pilot may look out at every point of the compass. The pilot-house, as you see, is a foursquare mass of iron, provided with no means of deflecting a ball. I expected trouble from it, and I was not disappointed. Until my accident happened, as we approached the enemy I stood in the pilot-house and gave the signals. Lieutenant Greene fired ...
— The Monitor and the Merrimac - Both sides of the story • J. L. Worden et al.


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