stoutly
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English stoutely, stouteliche, stoutliche, equivalent to stout + -ly.
Adverb edit
stoutly (comparative more stoutly, superlative most stoutly)
- In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately.
- He stoutly defended himself.
- Of stout build.
- 1870, Transactions of the Pathological Society of London:
- He was a stoutly-built and thickly-set man, about the average height, with all the ordinary symptoms of paralysis […]