stoutly

adv

Etymology: 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.”

2. Of stout build.

   “He was a stoutly-built and thickly-set man, about the average height, with all the ordinary symptoms of paralysis […]”