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† ˈstalworthly, adv. Obs.
[+ -ly2.]
1. Stoutly, strongly, etc.
c1200Ormin 5520 The fihhtenn stallwurrliȝ Onnȝæn þe flæshess lusstess. a1340Hampole Ps. xxvi. 12 With þe whilke i criyd till þe stalworthly. a1400–50Wars Alex. 1149 It was..sa strang & stalworthly wallid. c1440York Myst. xxx. 85 Scho may stakir in þe strete But scho stalworthely stande. 1508Dunbar Tua maritt wemen 485 Sum stalwardly steppis ben, with a stout curage.
¶2. ? Misused (through association with stale n.1) for: Clandestinely, secretly.
The interpretation is not quite certain: the sense may be ‘rigorously’, ‘resolutely’ (in the second quot. designedly substituted for the ‘secretly’ of the older texts).
a1300Cursor M. 4310 Quen þou seis him busk to þe, þou do þe stallworthli to flei. c1375Ibid. 2517 (Fairf.) He dide to-gedder samyn his men..and stalworþly [v.rr. Cott. dern⁓lik; Gött. priuili] he made ham bide, til agayne þe euen-tide. c1550Batt. Otterburn vi. in Child Ballads III. 295/2, I rede we ryde to Newe Castell, So styll and stalworthlye. |