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VALIANTLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does valiantly mean?
• VALIANTLY (adverb)
The adverb VALIANTLY has 1 sense:
1. with valor; in a valiant manner
Familiarity information: VALIANTLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With valor; in a valiant manner
Synonyms:
valiantly; valorously
Context example:
he fought valiantly until the end
Pertainym:
valiant (having or showing valor)
Context examples
“Not at all,” I denied valiantly.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Did I not see him at Poictiers, when for two days we had not more than a crust of bread and a cup of foul water, yet carrying himself most valiantly.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Let me tell her," he volunteered valiantly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For the past two years, you’ve worked valiantly with Saturn, the great taskmaster, for the demands on you since December 2017 were heavy.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The cub felt the prod of the life that was in him, and stood up and snarled valiantly by his mother's side.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And now he made for the wreck, rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the rugged foam, borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the ship, striving hard and valiantly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I stepped out and advanced valiantly upon a long-maned bull in the midst of his wives.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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