sedulously
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
sedulously (comparative more sedulously, superlative most sedulously)
- Applying constant and enduring effort to a task or course of action; in a sedulous manner.
- 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale[1], page 15:
- When the neighbours saw Mirbel thus sedulously adorning herself, they quickly discovered that she had ceased to think of her father—that she had ceased to mourn for him.
- 1914 June, James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
- We bought some biscuits and chocolate which we ate sedulously as we wandered through the squalid streets where the families of the fishermen lived.
- 1980, William O. Douglas, The Court Years 1939-1972:
- That court would sedulously avoid meeting contentious issues and would sit in resplendent dignity aloof from the issues of the day.