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  • adjective superlative form of stout: most stout.

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Examples

  • "In old houses, whose roofs are supported by great beams of oak, I know they call the stoutest and most important the 'king beam,' for without him the roof would fall.

    The Port of Adventure 1889

  • With three farm cats in the house there is no way I could keep these as pets — even with the stoutest home, but I learned something new today.

    Pet Pride: Roxie « Mudpuddle 2009

  • Working quickly but collectedly, I took nothing but the warmest and stoutest of clothes.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • He picked up the stoutest of the screwdrivers he had brought with him, slid it into the hasp, and twisted.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Working quickly but collectedly, I took nothing but the warmest and stoutest of clothes.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • He picked up the stoutest of the screwdrivers he had brought with him, slid it into the hasp, and twisted.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Personal Accountability: Perhaps the stoutest support for keeping people in line and doing the right thing is personal accountability.

    Frank A. Weil: Four Elements of Human Process, Often Overlooked Frank A. Weil 2012

  • There, forty feet beneath, wrapped about by an octopus that measured nine feet across from tentacle tip to tentacle tip and that could well drown the stoutest swimmer, he cooly and casually did the one thing that gave to him his empery over the monster.

    The Water Baby 2010

  • Personal Accountability: Perhaps the stoutest support for keeping people in line and doing the right thing is personal accountability.

    Frank A. Weil: Four Elements of Human Process, Often Overlooked Frank A. Weil 2012

  • For he slew with the shrewdness and blood-hunger of the fiercest, drew in his belly to famine with the youngest, and with the stoutest faced the bitter seas and stinging trail.

    THE DEATH OF LIGOUN 2010

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