doggedly
adverb
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Pronunciation: /ˈdɔɡədli/ / /ˈdɒɡɪdli/
adv
Etymology: From Middle English doggedlich, doggetly, doggidly, doggydly; equivalent to dogged + -ly.
- In a way that is stubbornly persistent.
“I grew moody, silent, and unsocial, but studied on doggedly and incessantly.”
“I continued to pound along doggedly. I was grimly resolute.”
- sullenly, gloomily
“'Nay,' said Dr Johnson, 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself DOGGEDLY to it.' [Footnote: This word is commonly used to signify sullenly, gloomily and in that sense alone it appears in Dr Johnson's Dictionary. I suppose he meant by it 'with an OBSTINATE RESOLUTION, similar to that of a sullen man'.]”