stoutheartedly
See also: stout-heartedly
English edit
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Etymology edit
stouthearted + -ly
Adverb edit
stoutheartedly (comparative more stoutheartedly, superlative most stoutheartedly)
- Bravely, courageously.
- 1980, Hans Wilhelm Gatzke, Germany and the United States, a "special Relationship?", →ISBN, page 127:
- Led by one of the war's greatest leaders, Winston Churchill, and buoyed by the hope for American aid, the British stoutheartedly lived through their "finest hour".
- Resolutely.
- 1935, Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College, →ISBN, pages 4–5:
- Although acutely conscious of living in a 'wilderness,' they stoutheartedly refused to yield an inch to pioneer prejudices or frontier values.