adv. Also 5 stoberlie. [f. STUBBORN a. + -LY2.] In a stubborn manner.
c. 1430. Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 2751. Malachias … threw Generides to the ground Ful herd and right stoberlie.
1528. More, Dyaloge, I. Wks. 149/2. Boldly and stubburnly defendyng, that sythe they had connyng to preache they were by God bounden to preach.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., IV. i. 94. When stubbornly he did repugne the truth.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., III. xlii. 318. Hæretiques are none but private men, that stubbornly defend some Doctrine, prohibited by their lawfull Soveraigns.
1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, IX. x. He retains stubbornly the prejudices which once have taken possession of him.
1873. M. Arnold, Lit. & Dogma (1876), 324. The masses can no longer be relied on … stubbornly to make clever men’s extravagances and aberrations … of no avail.
1893. Sir R. Ball, Story of Sun, 290. It [carbon] will stubbornly remain solid even though exalted to an enormously high temperature.
1896. Baden-Powell, Matabele Campaign, xv. A small but determined party of the enemy … stubbornly opposed their advance.
