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Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. vigorously pursuing knowledge, while scrupulously abiding by the rules of decorum (idiom)
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. phrase, idiomatic
    to extensively study texts and restrain oneself with propriety