strengthfully

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English strengthfully, equivalent to strengthful +‎ -ly.

Adverb[edit]

strengthfully (comparative more strengthfully, superlative most strengthfully)

  1. (rare) In a strengthful or strong manner; with strength.
    • 1880, Richard Heber Newton, Womanhood: Lectures on a Woman's Work in the World - Page 303:
      The perfection of physical form and power is fashioned by the soul strengthfully temperate, masterful of the forces of the body. The fulness of mental life is developed only by the soul strengthfully resolute and patient, heroic in endurance.
    • 1883, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Tinsley's magazine, conducted by E. Yates - Page 687:
      He must call her so no longer — but must go back forthwith to Paris, and in succouring others seek to forget himself — while she — God help her — she must strive to bear her solitary burden strengthfully.