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painstakingly

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Etymology

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Frompainstaking +‎-ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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painstakingly (comparativemorepainstakingly,superlativemostpainstakingly)

  1. In apainstaking manner; veryslowly andcarefully.
    • 1909,Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “IsShakespeare Dead?”, inWhat Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London:Harper & Brothers, publishedMay 1917,page314:
      I wish he had had a dog, just so we could see howpainstakingly he would have divided that dog among the family, in his careful business way.
    • 2013 June 18, Joshua Surtees, “Spomeniks: the second world war memorials that look like alien art”, inThe Guardian[1],→ISSN, archived fromthe original on3 February 2018:
      With the help of a friend from Zagreb, he found a map showing the locations of all the monuments andpainstakingly sought them out, discovering while doing so that most of the thousands of Spomeniks had been deliberately destroyed.

Translations

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in a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully
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