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Definition of Doggedly
1. Adverb. With obstinate determination. "He pursued her doggedly"
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
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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