stoutly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a resolute manner

   I was stoutly replying to my critics.

2. 2
   adv

   In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately.

   He stoutly defended himself.

3. 3
   adv

   Of stout build.

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

From Middle English stoutely, stouteliche, stoutliche, equivalent to stout + -ly.

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