Definition of Doggedly

1. Adverb. With obstinate determination. "He pursued her doggedly"

Exact synonyms: Tenaciously
Partainyms: Dogged, Tenacious

Definition of Doggedly

1. adv. In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.

Definition of Doggedly

1. Adverb. in a way that is stubbornly persistent ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Doggedly

1. stubbornly [adv] - See also: stubbornly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doggedly

dogfingt
dogfish
dogfishes
dogfood
dogfooded
dogfooding
dogfoods
dogfought
dogfox
dogfoxes
dogfur
dogge
dogged
doggeder
doggedest
doggedly (current term)
doggedness
doggednesses
dogger
doggerel
doggerel verse
doggerels
doggeries
doggerman
doggermen
doggers
doggery
dogges
doggess
doggesses

Literary usage of Doggedly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1839)
"It never does to sit down doggedly to correct." The rest, Scott's answer will sufficiently explain: — " To Robert Southey, Esq. " Dear Southey, "Edinburgh, ..."

2. First Impressions of England and Its People by Hugh Miller (1860)
"Well for England it should have been so doggedly maintained by the weaker Country. — Otterburn. — The Mountain Limestone in England, what it is not in ..."

3. Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1860)
"Nay," said Dr. Johnson, " a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. ... Writing doggedly. — The Union. — Quera Mary. — St. Gila'i. ..."

4. The Great Battles of All Nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 B. C.--A.D. 1898 by Archibald Wilberforce (1898)
"But each square, a tiny, immovable island of red, with its fringe of smoke and steel and darting flame, stood doggedly resolute. ..."

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