stout-heartedlyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

stout-heartedly (comparative more stout-heartedly, superlative most stout-heartedly)

1. Alternative form of stoutheartedly
   • 2012, Maureen M. Berry, Boots Full of Memories, ISBN 1457508869, page 4:

     With this in mind, my father hid my brother and sister (who were still quite small), under his bulky overcoat with hand-made pockets. I walked, stout-heartedly, beside him. This way my parents hoped and prayed that the Turks would see only one child and let us pass by unharmed.

   • 1982, Ellen Schiff, From Stereotype to Metaphor: The Jew in Contemporary Drama, ISBN 0873956222, page 163:

     And he tries stout-heartedly to explain away Lorenzo Clark's anti-Semitic jibes and mean tricks by pretending that the black is half-crazed by his terminal malady.

語源

stouthearted +‎ -ly

副詞

stoutheartedly (comparative more stoutheartedly, superlative most stoutheartedly)

1. Bravely, courageously.
   • 1980, Hans Wilhelm Gatzke, Germany and the United States, a "special Relationship?", ISBN 0674353269, page 127:

     Led by one of the war's greatest leaders, Winston Churchill, and buoyed by the hope for American aid, the British stoutheartedly lived through their "finest hour".

2. Resolutely.
   • 1935, Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College, ISBN 0674314506, page 4-5:

     Although acutely conscious of living in a 'wilderness,' they stoutheartedly refused to yield an inch to pioneer prejudices or frontier values.