All 4 Uses of
dogged
in
Great Expectations
- After that day, a day rarely passed without her drawing the hammer on her slate, and without Orlick's slouching in and standing doggedly before her, as if he knew no more than I did what to make of it.†
Chpt 16 *doggedly = with continuing effort despite difficulties
- "Yes!" said he, facing round, after doggedly preceding me a few steps towards the house.†
Chpt 29
- So, the Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time.†
Chpt 38
- But I felt myself so unequal to the performance that I gave it up, and stood looking at Miss Havisham in what I suppose she took for a dogged manner, inasmuch as she said, when we had taken a good look at each other,— "Are you sullen and obstinate?"†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(dogged as in: dogged determination) continuing effort to achieve something despite difficulties (persistent effort)
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(2)
(dogged as in: dogged by problems) followed; or persistently annoyed
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)