ASSIDUOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assiduously mean? 

• ASSIDUOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb ASSIDUOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. with care and persistence

  Familiarity information: ASSIDUOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSIDUOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With care and persistence

Context example:

she worked assiduously on the senior thesis

Pertainym:

assiduous (marked by care and persistent effort)

 Context examples 

Her sufferings were physical as well as mental, for over one eye rose a hideous, plum-coloured swelling, which her maid, a tall, austere woman, was bathing assiduously with vinegar and water.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Georgiana took out her handkerchief and blew her nose for an hour afterwards; Eliza sat cold, impassable, and assiduously industrious.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

While Sir Walter and Elizabeth were assiduously pushing their good fortune in Laura Place, Anne was renewing an acquaintance of a very different description.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I have been working very hard lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan's studies, and I have been practising shorthand very assiduously.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Had you not been really amiable, you would have hated me for it; but in spite of the pains you took to disguise yourself, your feelings were always noble and just; and in your heart, you thoroughly despised the persons who so assiduously courted you.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

My occupation of Peggotty's spare-room put a constraint upon me, from which he was free: for, knowing how assiduously she attended on Mr. Barkis all day, I did not like to remain out late at night; whereas Steerforth, lying at the Inn, had nothing to consult but his own humour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Fancy me yielding and melting, as I am doing: human love rising like a freshly opened fountain in my mind and overflowing with sweet inundation all the field I have so carefully and with such labour prepared—so assiduously sown with the seeds of good intentions, of self-denying plans.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)