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stout-heartedly en · ADV

Etymology

From stout-hearted + -ly.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of stoutheartedly.
   alt of stoutheartedly
   • With this in mind, my father hid my brother and sister (who were still quite small), under his bulky overcoat with hand-made pockets. I walked, stout-heartedly, beside him. This way my parents hoped and prayed that the Turks would see only one child and let us pass by unharmed. 2012, Maureen M. Berry, Boots Full of Memories, →ISBN, page 4:
   • And he tries stout-heartedly to explain away Lorenzo Clark's anti-Semitic jibes and mean tricks by pretending that the black is half-crazed by his terminal malady. 1982, Ellen Schiff, From Stereotype to Metaphor: The Jew in Contemporary Drama, →ISBN, page 163:

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