robustiouslyadv.
/rə(ʊ)ˈbʌstɪəsli/, /rə(ʊ)ˈbʌstʃəsli/, U.S. /roʊˈbəstʃəsli/, /rəˈbəstʃəsli/ Now rare.
In a rough or boisterous manner; with noisy self-assertion.Apparently unrecorded in the 18th cent: see etymological note at robustious adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adverb] > roughly or violently > roughly or boisterously
robustiously1607
boisterously1846
1607 T. Middleton Phoenix sig. C2 There's a kind of captaine, verie robustiously enquires for you.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ii. 115 Tall and spreading trees amongst whose leaves the wind onely whispers, but never robustiously blowes.
1655 Bp. J. Richardson Observ. Old Test. 287 Speaketh wickedly, roughly, and roboustiously.
1846 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 204/2 Their tone was querulously despondent and consciously feeble, not robustiously indignant.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxvii. 322 ‘I believe I have been quite plain from the beginning!’ cries he robustiously.
1946 William & Mary Q. 3 439 It may not do to set to it robustiously. Simpler, gentler tones may outlast strident shoutings.
1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Mar. This robustiously funny artrepreneur put the city's lower depths on the map with his dazzling ‘Ruckus Manhattan’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adv.1607