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[ adverb ] in a resolute manner

Examples

"he was stoutly replying to his critics"

Used in print

(Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)

That after all his years of effort to become a composer , he should now , now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse_on_the_Arts_and_Sciences , be so close to a success in music and have_to reject it .

Related terms

stalwart stalwart

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