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doggedly, adv.|ˈdɒgɪdlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a dogged manner: see prec.
†1. Like a dog (in appearance or manner). Obs.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Emperradamente, doggedly, Canino more. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 13 Seales as big as Lyons, and..doggedly visaged.
2. Like a dog (in bad sense); currishly.
†a. Cruelly, maliciously, spitefully. Obs.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 1289 Doggedlich y schal hem grete. c1400Destr. Troy 1398 And þou so doggetly has done in þi derfe hate. 1589Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 39 Then he concludes all doggedlie. 1655Heywood & Rowley Fort. by Land iii. Wks. 1874 VI. 398 We have used him so doggedly.
b. Surlily, sullenly; with sullen obstinacy.
1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 57 He would not fret, nor doggedly repine. 1780Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 23 May, You cannot think how doggedly I left your house on Friday morning. 1838Lytton Alice 100 ‘For my part, I shall resign’, said Lord Saxingham doggedly.
3. With the persistence of a dog; obstinately, stubbornly, pertinaciously.
1773Johnson 16 Aug. in Boswell, Nay..a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it. 1807Southey Let. to Scott 8 Dec., It never does to sit down doggedly to correct. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 209, I..studied on doggedly and incessantly. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 203 He doggedly adhered to his assertions of his own innocence. |