thorough-stitch

See also: thoroughstitch

English

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Adverb

thorough-stitch (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Thoroughly, through to the end.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
      , 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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