INDUSTRIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does industriously mean? 

• INDUSTRIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb INDUSTRIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in an industrious manner

  Familiarity information: INDUSTRIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDUSTRIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an industrious manner

Context example:

they hoed up weeds industriously all morning

Pertainym:

industrious (characterized by hard work and perseverance)

 Context examples 

Has it not been industriously circulated by yourselves?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She could not think that Harriet's solace or her own sins required more; and she was therefore industriously getting rid of the subject as they returned;—but it burst out again when she thought she had succeeded, and after speaking some time of what the poor must suffer in winter, and receiving no other answer than a very plaintive—“Mr. Elton is so good to the poor!” she found something else must be done.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She had to destroy all the hopes which she had been so industriously feeding—to appear in the ungracious character of the one preferred—and acknowledge herself grossly mistaken and mis-judging in all her ideas on one subject, all her observations, all her convictions, all her prophecies for the last six weeks.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)