English

Alternative forms

• through-stitch

Adverb

thorough-stitch ‎(not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Thoroughly, through to the end.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: 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 […].