| 释义 |
manfully, adv.|ˈmænfʊlɪ|
[f. manful a. + -ly2.]
In a manful manner; with manly courage or resolution, bravely, valiantly.
c1400Melayne 1240 This day wirke þou Manfully With thi nobill Cheualry. c1430Life St. Kath. (1884) 57 Drede not..þou..welbeloued queene vn to god but do manfully. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 31 He manfullye defended him selfe in battayl. 1611Bible 2 Macc. ix. 10 Let vs die manfully for our brethren. 1782Cowper Gilpin 76 Then over all..His long red cloak, well brush'd and neat, He manfully did throw. 1839Thirlwall Greece xlviii. VI. 141 The Greeks..continued to fight manfully. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 50 Bishop Hooper, who died manfully at Gloucester for his religion. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxvii. 219 The labour was enormous, but it was manfully and cheerfully done.
†b. Honourably. Obs.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. iv. i. 27, I kil'd a man, whose death I much repent, But yet I slew him manfully, in fight. |