studiously

studiously

English

Etymology

    From studious + -ly.

    Adverb

    studiously (comparative more studiously, superlative most studiously)

    1. In a studious manner.
      • 1797, William Roscoe, chapter II, in The Life of Lorenzo di Medici, London:
        Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections.
      • 1873, Walter Rew, “The Dying Poet”, in Maud Vivian: A Drama; and Poems, London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., [], page 171:
        Forthwith I mingled with my fellow-men, / And studiously from records of the past, / And from the flowing tide of human being, / Cull’d deepest knowledge of their history
      • 1893, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill), page 282:
        Thus was I then to lose my faithfull preceptress, as did the philosophers of the town the white crow of her profession: for besides that she never ransacked her customers, whose taste too she ever studiously consulted, []
      • 1903, Laurence Hutton, Literary Landmarks of Oxford, page 29:
        His three years there were spent chiefly in the study of music, in the Vaulting-school, in dancing; and in quarrelling, studiously, with the authorities, upon all sorts of subjects.
      • 1995, Osarẹn S. B. Ọmọregie, Stem, Steps and Caps: A History of Christ's Chosen Church of God, →ISBN:
        The divers tongues are not intended to be studiously learnt or dramatically parrotised as some church leaders would want to drag adherents into.
      • 2023 September 12, James Kirchick, “Bayard Rustin Challenged Progressive Orthodoxies”, in The New York Times[1]:
        [] these tributes studiously ignore another aspect of his life: how, throughout his later career, Mr. Rustin repeatedly challenged progressive orthodoxies.

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