thorough-stitch
See also: thoroughstitch
English
Alternative forms
- through-stitch
Adverb
thorough-stitch (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Thoroughly, through to the end.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, vol.1, ch.23:
- I might also blame him, that having undertaken a resolution (in my judgment, rather brave than rash) to caste himselfe inconsiderately, weake and unarmed, amidst a tempestuous ocean of senselesse and mad men, he should have gone through stitch with it, and not leave the person he represented in the briers […].
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