SEDULOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sedulously mean? 

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

1. in a sedulous manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEDULOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a sedulous manner

Context example:

this illusion has been sedulously fostered

Pertainym:

sedulous (marked by care and persistent effort)

 Context examples 

“One moment. I thank you, sir;” and the clerk laid the two sheets of paper alongside and sedulously compared their contents.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Immediately surrounding Mrs Musgrove were the little Harvilles, whom she was sedulously guarding from the tyranny of the two children from the Cottage, expressly arrived to amuse them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

When she had served us all, she withdrew to the window, where she sedulously employed herself in repairing some shirts and other clothes belonging to Mr. Peggotty, and neatly folding and packing them in an old oilskin bag, such as sailors carry.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Elinor wanted very much to know, though she did not chuse to ask, whether Edward was then in town; but nothing would have induced Fanny voluntarily to mention his name before her, till able to tell her that his marriage with Miss Morton was resolved on, or till her husband's expectations on Colonel Brandon were answered; because she believed them still so very much attached to each other, that they could not be too sedulously divided in word and deed on every occasion.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The sun streamed in at the little window, but she sat with her own back and the back of the large chair towards it, screening the fire as if she were sedulously keeping IT warm, instead of it keeping her warm, and watching it in a most distrustful manner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)