doggedly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   with obstinate determination

   We pursued them doggedly.

2. 2
   adv

   In a way that is stubbornly persistent.

   I grew moody, silent, and unsocial, but studied on doggedly and incessantly.

3. 3
   adv

   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'.].

From Middle English doggedlich, doggetly, doggidly, doggydly; equivalent to dogged + -ly.

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