CONSCIENTIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conscientiously mean? 

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

1. with extreme conscientiousness

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSCIENTIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With extreme conscientiousness

Synonyms:

conscientiously; religiously; scrupulously

Context example:

he came religiously every morning at 8 o'clock

Pertainym:

conscientious (characterized by extreme care and great effort)

 Context examples 

Mr. Omer's face and manner went for so much, that I could conscientiously nod my head, as divining his meaning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I conscientiously believe so, Mr. Rochester.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He really felt conscientiously vexed on the occasion; for the very exertion to which he had limited the performance of his promise to his father was by this arrangement rendered impracticable.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Steady to his purpose, he scarcely spoke ten words to her through the whole of Saturday, and though they were at one time left by themselves for half-an-hour, he adhered most conscientiously to his book, and would not even look at her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I can do that conscientiously, said Carter, who had now undone the bandages; only I wish I could have got here sooner: he would not have bled so much—but how is this?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I walked a long time, and when I thought I had nearly done enough, and might conscientiously yield to the fatigue that almost overpowered me—might relax this forced action, and, sitting down on a stone I saw near, submit resistlessly to the apathy that clogged heart and limb—I heard a bell chime—a church bell.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Gatsby got himself into a shadow and while Daisy and I talked looked conscientiously from one to the other of us with tense unhappy eyes.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)