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- adverb UK Obsolete spelling of
valorously .
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Examples
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William de Albini, son of the above, succeeded to these lordships; and, like his father, was a celebrated warrior: according to Matthew Paris, he valourously distinguished himself at the battle of Tinchebrai, in Normandy,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832 Various
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Let us joyfully hymn the wise martyrs and ascetic fathers, for in obedience to Christ's injunctions, and having abolished every unclean service, the holy ones have honourably and trustfully served the One God and Lord, Whom they, in the presence of the tyrants, valourously confessed, and therefore were crowned from above.
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Antietam, another fell valourously and in like manner at Gettysburg, and the fourth is still in service at the front.
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She braced herself up, and set herself valourously to unriddle the perplexities of a nocturne by Chopin.
The Golden Calf 1875
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't as valourously as I may, that sall I suerly do, that is the breff and the long.
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