| 释义 |
sedulously, adv.|ˈsɛdjʊləslɪ|
[-ly2.]
Diligently, attentively.
1593Nashe Unfort. Trav. (1594) E 2, Surely you would haue sayd they had bin brought vp in hogs academie to learne to eate acornes, if you had seene how sedulously they fell to them. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 190 The place..is..sedulously looked vnto. 1693Owen Holy Spirit 251 Either not sedulously and duely to Exercise their Ministerial Gifts. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 35 Where find so discreet a counsellor, so improving an example, and a guardian so sedulously attentive to the interests of herself and her children? 1778F. Burney Evelina xxxi. (1791) II. 189 You sedulously avoid my conversation. 1821Scott Kenilw. x, His education..had been too sedulously improved by subsequent study to give way to any imaginary terrors. 1861Thackeray Four Georges i. (1862) 17 A great brick church which he sedulously frequented. 1885Law Times LXXVIII. 280/1 Any kind of arrangement with creditors is sedulously hedged around. |