studiously

comparative more studiously · superlative most studiously

1. In a studious manner.

   Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections.

   1797, William Roscoe, chapter II, in The Life of Lorenzo di Medici, London

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   Forthwith I mingled with my fellow-men, / And studiously from records of the past, / And from the flowing tide of human being, / Cull’d deepest knowledge of their history

   1873, Walter Rew, “The Dying Poet”, in Maud Vivian: A Drama; and Poems, London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., […], page 171

   Thus was I then to lose my faithfull preceptress, as did the philosophers of the town the white crow of her profession: for besides that she never ransacked her customers, whose taste too she ever studiously consulted,[…]

   1893, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill), page 282

   His three years there were spent chiefly in the study of music, in the Vaulting-school, in dancing; and in quarrelling, studiously, with the authorities, upon all sorts of subjects.

   1903, Laurence Hutton, Literary Landmarks of Oxford, page 29

   The divers tongues are not intended to be studiously learnt or dramatically parrotised as some church leaders would want to drag adherents into.

   1995, Osarẹn S. B. Ọmọregie, Stem, Steps and Caps: A History of Christ's Chosen Church of God, →ISBN

   […] these tributes studiously ignore another aspect of his life: how, throughout his later career, Mr. Rustin repeatedly challenged progressive orthodoxies.

   2023 December 9, James Kirchick, “Bayard Rustin Challenged Progressive Orthodoxies”, in The New York Times