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stoutheartedly en · ADV

Etymology

From stouthearted + -ly.

Meanings

1. Bravely, courageously.
   • 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". 1980, Hans Wilhelm Gatzke, Germany and the United States, a "special Relationship?", →ISBN, page 127:
2. Resolutely.
   • Although acutely conscious of living in a 'wilderness,' they stoutheartedly refused to yield an inch to pioneer prejudices or frontier values. 1935, Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College, →ISBN, pages 4–5:

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