单词 | stoutly |
释义 | stoutly (once / 1364 pages) adv When you do something stoutly, you face it head on and bravely move forward. A fairy tale knight fighting a dragon, for example, goes stoutly into battle. A nervous but brave kindergartner might walk stoutly through the school doors on his first day, and a determined marathon racer pushes stoutly on to the finish line. The adverb stoutly comes from the Old French word estout, "brave, fierce, or proud," which in turn comes from a West Germanic root, stult, "proud or stately." WORD FAMILYstout: stouter, stoutest, stoutly, stoutness, stouts USAGE EXAMPLESAfter Game 6, he stoutly defended using Chapman and said he expected “more of the same” from the fastballer in Game 7. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) But Mr. Londoño and his clique stoutly resisted such accountability through years of negotiations. Washington Post(Oct 03, 2016) But May stoutly refuses to specify what she means by this. Washington Post(Sep 01, 2016) adv in a resolute manner he was stoutly replying to his critics |
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