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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “BOLDLY”

BOLDLY adv.
In a bold manner.
ADVENTUROUSLY adv.
In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.
CLOSE v.
To grapple; to engange in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. Prescott. To close on or upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. "Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage." Sir W. Temple. -- To close with. (a) To acced…
CRAVE v.
entreat; to beseech; to implore. I crave your honor's pardon. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv. 43.
DEVIATE v.
astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope.
FACE v.
or impudent opposition. "He faced men down." Prior. -- To face (a thing) out, to persist boldly or impudently in an assertion or in a line of conduct. "That thinks with oaths to face the matter out." Shak
HARDILY adv.
Boldly; stoutly; resolutely. Wyclif.
IMPUGN v.
inuations against; to gainsay; to oppose. The truth hereof I will net rashly pugn, or overboldly affirm. Peacham.
KNOP n.
Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial; -- called also knob, and knosp. Knop sedge (Bot.), the bur reed (Sparganium); - - so called from its globular clusters of seed vessels. Prior.
OUTSPEAK v.
To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell.
OUTSPOKEN a.
Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; as, an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke. -- Out*spo"ken*ness, n.
RESOLUTELY adv.
In a resolute manner; with fixed purpose; boldly; firmly; steadily; with perseverance. Some.. facts he examines, some he resolutely denies. Swift.
ROUNDLY adv.
Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply. He affirms everything roundly. Addison.
SHIVER v.
er. Swift. The man that shivered on the brink of sin, Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in. Creech.
SPECULATE v.
n; to speculate on political events. It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most pefect quietude to the external regulations of society. Hawthorne.
STOUTLY adv.
In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.