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sturdily, adv.|ˈstɜːdɪlɪ|
Forms: see sturdy a.; also 4–6 sturdely.
[f. sturdy a. + -ly2.]
In a sturdy manner; † with reckless daring (obs.); ruthlessly, cruelly, violently (obs.); † surlily, rudely, harshly, mutinously, rebelliously (obs.); obstinately, unyieldingly, resolutely.
c1374Chaucer Compl. Mars 82 Til him fel a drede, Through Phebus, that was comen hastely Within the paleys-yates sturdely. 1375Barbour Bruce ii. 363 Thai..Swappyt owt swerdis sturdyly. c1440Partonope 6154 The wind..blew so sturdely. c1470Henry Wallace ii. 42 Full sturdely he could befor him stand. 1538Elyot Dict., Toruè, sturdyly in looke. 1544in Sel. Cases Crt. Requests (Selden Soc.) 107 The whiche to doo the said complaynaunte..obstynatly and sturdyly then & there refusyd. 1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) H ij b, What say ye to the number of vagabonds and loytring beggers, which..will..stande sturdely in Cities, and begge boldly at euery dore. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. x. §68 The Scots now begun again to talk sturdily. 1674Prideaux Lett. (Camden) 13, I assure you they dispute the case most sturdyly. 1810Scott Lady of L. iv. xxv, It was a stag, a stag of ten, Bearing his branches sturdily. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xvii. 456 Wyatt answered sturdily that Brancetor was his master's subject. 1893J. Edgar Hist. Early Scott. Educ. 211 The University of Aberdeen held out sturdily against the reformers. 1901Rashdall & Rait New College vi. 115 The soul of the sturdily Protestant Bishop Horne was moved by the tidings which reached him from Oxford. |