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stout-hearted, a.
Having a stout heart; courageous, undaunted; † stubborn, intractable.
1552Huloet, Stowt harted or stomaked, grauicors. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 334 When the king and his Lords sawe the demeanour of the people, the stowtest hearted of them that were with the king were afrayed. 1611Bible Isa. xlvi. 12 Hearken vnto me, ye stout hearted, that are farre from righteousnesse. 1613Hieron Minor Saints Wks. 1614 I. 31 Wee are generally stout-hearted, and will not yeelde to the terrour of the Lord. 1788Wesley Jrnl. 29 Mar., It was given me to speak strong words, such as made the stout⁓hearted tremble. 1841Dickens Barn. Rudge lxi, A few of the stoutest-hearted were armed and gathered in a body on the green. 1847Helps Friends in C. i. i. 18, I think, however, that the view is a stouthearted one. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 273 There were indeed many stouthearted nonconformists in the South; but scarcely any who in obstinacy..could bear a comparison with the men of the school of Cameron. 1905Lyall Life Marq. Dufferin I. i. 12 His descendants were stout-hearted country gentlemen after his kind. 1906W. A. Craigie Anc. Scand. Relig. ii. 30 Snorri describes him as ‘the bravest and stoutest-hearted of the gods’.
Hence stoutˈheartedly adv.; stoutˈheartedness.
a1683Owen Holy Spirit (1693) 39 The Reliefs which..carnal Security and Stoutheartedness in Adversity do offer. 1826E. Irving Babylon I. Introd. 17 Leaving them long to welter in the wo from which their stout-heartedness would not be warned. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets vii. 212 For his cardinal virtue Euripides chose what the Greeks called εὐψυχία, stout-heartedness. 1884Brit. Q. Rev. Apr. 418 Mr. Mackintosh proceeds stout-heartedly in his great work. |