stout-heartedadj.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Stowt harted or stomaked, grauicors.

1569 R. Grafton 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.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xlvi. 12 Hearken vnto me, ye stout hearted, that are farre from righteousnesse. View more context for this quotation

1614 S. Hieron All the Serm. 31 Wee are generally stout-hearted, and will not yeelde to the terrour of the Lord.

1788 J. Wesley Jrnl. 29 Mar. It was given me to speak strong words, such as made the stout~hearted tremble.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxi. 289 A few of the stoutest-hearted were armed and gathered in a body on the green.

1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. i. 18 I think, however, that the view is a stouthearted one.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 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.

1905 A. Lyall Life Marquis of Dufferin I. i. 12 His descendants were stout-hearted country gentlemen after his kind.

1906 W. A. Craigie Relig. Anc. Scandinavia ii. 30 Snorri describes him as ‘the bravest and stoutest-hearted of the gods’.

1884 Brit. Q. Rev. Apr. 418 Mr. Mackintosh proceeds stout-heartedly in his great work.

a1683 J. Owen Disc. Holy Spirit (1693) 39 The Reliefs which..carnal Security and Stoutheartedness in Adversity do offer.

1826 E. Irving Babylon I. Introd. 17 Leaving them long to welter in the wo from which their stout-heartedness would not be warned.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 212 For his cardinal virtue Euripides chose what the Greeks called εὐψυχία, stout-heartedness.