stout-heartedly

stout-hearted +‎ -ly

stout-heartedly (comparative more stout-heartedly, superlative most stout-heartedly)

1. Alternative form of stoutheartedly
   • 2012, Maureen M. Berry, Boots Full of Memories, →ISBN, page 4:

     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.

   • 1982, Ellen Schiff, From Stereotype to Metaphor: The Jew in Contemporary Drama, →ISBN, page 163:

     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.