stoutheartedly

See also: stout-heartedly

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

stouthearted +‎ -ly

Adverb

stoutheartedly (comparative more stoutheartedly, superlative most stoutheartedly)

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