单词 | to stout it out |
释义 | > as lemmasto stout it out b. to stout it out: to persist in a defiant attitude, e.g. when detected in a falsehood, or when hard pressed; to ‘brave it out’. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (intransitive)] > defy stout1303 to be (also meet, run) in a person's beardc1380 to face and brace1447 to stout it1570 to bid defiance1629 to stout it outa1639 bravado1801 to breast it out1815 a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. xi. 105 O that we could be so desirous of unity, not stouting it out as many do. 1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes 93 The Defendant was so far from this fault of stouting it out over-long; that he deserves to lose his head for yeelding Bristol up too soone. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Lev. xxvi. 23) 168 The wicked refuse to receiv corrections:..they stout it out, and will not stoop. 1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 366 He will not debase his Sovereignty to treat with a wretch that stands to his armes, and stouts it out with him. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 145 They had stubbornly stouted it out with God. 1848 E. Gurney in A. J. C. Hare Gurneys of Earlham (1895) II. 255 When..I saw William Forster standing at the hall-door, looking unutterably sad, I felt I could stout it out no longer, and completely broke down. 1897 Advance (Chicago) 25 Mar. 372/1 Robins have either been belated or some of them determined upon stouting it out all the season through. < as lemmas |
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