Definition of "stalworth" []

• Sturdy, strong, well-built. (adjective)
• Brave, courageous. (adjective)

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• "The complete Republican Party and their stalworth supporters will be found to be a mixed coalition of creepy political, social and religious extremist."
• "Seven stalworth men shoot out from among a mass of rags on the floor, and with dark, wandering eyes, and massive, uncombed beards, commence in their native Italian a series of interrogatories, not one of which the detective can understand."
• "Mr. Stubbs draws back the curtains, when, behold! but tell it not in the by-ways, there is revealed the stalworth figure of Simon Patterson, the plantation parson."