drudgingly

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English

Etymology

From drudging +‎ -ly.

Adverb

drudgingly (comparative more drudgingly, superlative most drudgingly)

  1. In a drudging manner; laboriously.
    • 1691, John Ray, “The Cartesian Hypothesis Considered and Censured”, in The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. , London: Samuel Smith, , →OCLC, page 39:
      It is not ſo decorous in reſpect of God, that he ſhould αὐτουργεῖν ἅπαντα , ſet his ovvn hand as it vvere to every vvork, and immediately do all the meaneſt and triflingſt things himſelf drudgingly, vvithout making uſe of any inferior or ſubordinate Miniſters.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “drudgingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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