STOUTLY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a resolute manner

Example:

he was stoutly replying to his critics

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

stout (dependable)

Credits

Context examples:

I am delighted to hear you speak so stoutly on the subject, replied Emma, smiling; but you do not mean to deny that there was a time—and not very distant either—when you gave me reason to understand that you did care about him?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Yet the Lady Loring held the place stoutly, and on the second day the Socman was slain—by his own men, as some think—so that we were delivered from their hands; for which praise be to all the saints, and more especially to the holy Anselm, upon whose feast it came to pass.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Then we'll be old maids," said Jo stoutly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I have an income,” I answered stoutly, and could have bitten my tongue the next instant.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Ministers began to preach sermons against "Ephemera," and one, who too stoutly stood for much of its content, was expelled for heresy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He believed this very stoutly while he was in Mansfield Wood, and all the way home; but there was a something in Sir Thomas, when they sat round the same table, which made Mr. Yates think it wiser to let him pursue his own way, and feel the folly of it without opposition.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Stoutly spoken, master alderman!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy likewise bore up stoutly till the steamer sailed.