stoutly

comparative more stoutly · superlative most stoutly

1. In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately.

   He stoutly defended himself.

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   He stoutly denied there was anything between them.

   1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

   The Indians tell us that there are diamonds to be found in the labyrinth, but they stoutly refuse to set foot there.

   1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 542

2. Of stout build.

   He was a stoutly-built and thickly-set man, about the average height, with all the ordinary symptoms of paralysis […]

   1870, Transactions of the Pathological Society of London