a. Obs. rare–1. [f. STRONG a. + -FUL.] Full of strength, very strong.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 7995. So were the Troiens sore adred, For thei of Grece were so strongful, That [etc.].
Hence Strongfully adv. arch.
a. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 7584. Thei keped the Gregeys not-for-thi And stode a-ȝeyn strongfully.
1857. A. Ainger, in Edith Sichel, Life & Lett. (1906), 43. We look back on the Puritans, fighting strongfully and prayerfully in her defence.
