assiduouslyadv.
With close or constant application, sedulously.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adverb] > with studious care or diligently
yernlyc725
needlyeOE
yerneOE
getenlya1200
diligently1340
studiouslya1382
assiduallya1400
ithandlya1400
throngc1400
diligent1479
abidingly1530
industriously1572
sedulously1594
applyingly1624
assiduously1627
1627 J. Forbes in Quiver (1880) 301 I prayed also assiduously that it would please Him to root out of my heart..every root of bitterness.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. lx. 217 His sister assiduously attended him in his recovery.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 425 He set himself assiduously to drill those new levies.
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