stalwartness (stalwartnes)

Stalwart character or quality; sturdine ; stoutne ; strength. Athenæum, Jan. 14, 1888, p. 57. stalworth (stâl'werth), a. [Early mod. E. also stalwoorth, stalworthe; 5894 fast (the AS. weorth and fæst as the second element of adj. compounds being used rather as adj. formatives than as independent words). Such contraction is not common in AS., and the form stælwyrthe has generally been otherwise explained: (b) times, esp. in comp., stæl, a place, stall, + weorth, wurth, worth, worthy (see stall and worth2 ). The full form stall- occurs in ME. stallworthely, a var. of stalworthly, and in the mod. surname Stall worthy. In any view, the ME. forms stale worth, stalewurthe, stelewurthe, stealewurthe, with medial e, must be regarded as irregular. In fact the orig. meaning orig. meaning of the compound pears to have been lost, and the ME. variations must be due to simulation of one or other of the words above considered. Hence, by further variation, stalwarth, and now stalwart, which is no longer regarded as a compound.] 11. Steadfast; firm-based. stamin Gr. στήμων, the warp in the loom, a thread as spun); Some few of the main stamina , or chief lines, were taken care of from the first, and made up the first creeds. Water land, Works, IV. 309. That stalworthe sted [Constantinople] so strong was founded, Philip hoped that holde with his help to wynne. A lisa under of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1230. Steken the gates stonharde with stalworth barrez. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 884. 2. Stout; strong; sturdy: used of things and men or animals, in a merely physical sense. [Archaic.] A hoge hathel for the nonez & of hyghe elde;... Sturne stif on the stryththe on stalworth schonkez [shanks). Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 847. And his str eng the schal be maad stalworthe [et robora- bitur fortitudo ejus, Vulg.]. Wyclif , Dan. viii. 24. His stalworth steed the champion stout bestrode. Fairfax , tr. of Ta o, vii. 27. ( Nares .) 3. Stout; sturdy; brave; bold: noting men, with reference to strength and courage. [Archaic.] A man that es yhung and light, Be he never swa stalworth and wyght. Hampole , Prick of Conscience, 1. 689. Well by his visage you might know He was a stalworth knight, and keen. Scott , Marmion, i. 5. IMG:content-1968.png:[blocks in formation] The sexte vertue es str eng the or stalworth ne noghte onely of body but of herte, and wille evynly to suffre the wele and the waa, welt he or wandrethe, whethire so betyde. MS. Lincoln, A. i. 17, f. 217. ( Hall i well, s. v. wandrethe.)