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stout-heartedly

stout-heartedly is the alternative form of stoutheartedly.

Meaning of stoutheartedly

Adverb

stoutheartedly (comparative more stoutheartedly, superlative most stoutheartedly)

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

Forms of stout-heartedly

comparativemore stout-heartedly
superlativemost stout-heartedly

Origin of stout-heartedly

From stout-hearted + -ly.

Questions about stout-heartedly

What is stout-heartedly the alternative form of?
Stout-heartedly is the alternative form of stoutheartedly.

Words near stout-heartedly in the dictionary

  1. stoushed
  2. stoushes
  3. stoushing
  4. stout
  5. stout-hearted
  6. stout-heartedly
  7. stout-heartedness
  8. stout-legged moa
  9. stout-legged moas
  10. Stoute
  11. stouten

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