Not P but Moby-Dick (51)

[Mark Kohut]

stout·ly
/ˈstoutlē/
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*adverb*

   1. 1.
   with courage and determination.
   "she stoutly defends her action"
   2. 2.
   in a strong and sturdy manner.
   "the houses are built stoutly of granite"

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stout·ly
/ˈstoutlē/
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*adverb*

   1. 1.
   with courage and determination.
   "she stoutly defends her action"
   2. 2.
   in a strong and sturdy manner.
   "the houses are built stoutly of granite"

<http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=on&content=stoutly>


On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 2:58 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 64:
>
> About midnight that steak was cut and cooked; and lighted by two lanterns
> of sperm oil, Stubb stoutly stood up to his spermaceti supper at the
> capstan-head, as if that capstan were a sideboard.
>
> What does "stoutly" mean here?
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