stoutly
advEtymology From Middle English stoutely, stouteliche, stoutliche, equivalent to stout + -ly.
1
In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately.
- He stoutly defended himself.
- He stoutly denied there was anything between them.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
2
Of stout build.
- He was a stoutly-built and thickly-set man, about the average height, with all the ordinary symptoms of paralysis […]1870, Transactions of the Pathological Society of London: