thorough-stitch

Alternative forms

 * through-stitch
 * thoroughstitch

Adverb

 * 1)  Thoroughly, through to the end.
 * , 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.