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Definition of Stoically
1. Adverb. Without emotion; in a stoic manner. "He stoically accepted all suffering"
Definition of Stoically
1. Adverb. In a manner that endures pain and hardship without outwardly showing suffering or expressing complaint. ¹
2. Adverb. In an unfeeling manner that inwardly is unaffected by pain or distress. ¹
3. Adverb. (philosophy) In a manner consistent with the philosophy of stoicism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stoically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoically
Literary usage of Stoically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer, John William Cunliffe (1915)
"... quite rightly — with their own careers; if the night, reflects stoically,
fatalistically: terpreters is not ..."
2. Notes of Travel and Life by Mendell, Sarah Mendell, Miss Hosmer, Miss Mendell, Charlotte Hosmer (1854)
"I could have borne mine stoically, without saying one word, if the world had
never received worse injuries from the same cause. LETTER XII. CANADA. ..."
3. Trial for Mal-practice, Frank P. Frisby, by His Next Friend, Pearson Noble by John S. Cochrane, Illinois Circuit Court (Carroll County) (1864)
"I think these were the words ; and look upon me stoically, because I was a man of
... Then tell you to look upon me stoically. Shut out from your heart that ..."
4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"He led out the Queen, ' and did the other ceremonies, according to rule; had a
very bad ' night, as we learned underhand;' but persisted stoically ..."