"slow study" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "word": "quick study"
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          "ref": "1891 November, Robert Louis Stevenson, Letter to W. Craibe Angus",
          "text": "I used to write as slow as judgment; now I write rather fast; but I am still 'a slow study,' and sit along while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought, there is the only method: macerate your subject, let it boil slow, then take the lid off and look in —and there your stuff is, good or bad.",
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        {
          "ref": "1897 August, Charles Egbert Craddock, “The Juggler”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 80, number 478, page 254",
          "text": "He does it so badly, and he is such a slow study, that I'm afraid the first act will break down if I don't give it some vim; after you are once on, the thing will go and I shan't care a red.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, Kasey Michaels, The Belligerent Miss Boynton",
          "text": "I was always a slow study, imp, but I made my own decisions.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Vance G. Morgan, Freelance Christianity: Philosophy, Faith, and the Real World, page 68",
          "text": "Although I'm a very slow study, Annie Dillard's simple observation is beginning to seep in.",
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      "glosses": [
        "One who takes a long time to learn or understand things; a slow learner."
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        "(US) One who takes a long time to learn or understand things; a slow learner."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slow, study."
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  "word": "slow study"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1891 November, Robert Louis Stevenson, Letter to W. Craibe Angus",
          "text": "I used to write as slow as judgment; now I write rather fast; but I am still 'a slow study,' and sit along while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought, there is the only method: macerate your subject, let it boil slow, then take the lid off and look in —and there your stuff is, good or bad.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1897 August, Charles Egbert Craddock, “The Juggler”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 80, number 478, page 254",
          "text": "He does it so badly, and he is such a slow study, that I'm afraid the first act will break down if I don't give it some vim; after you are once on, the thing will go and I shan't care a red.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982, Kasey Michaels, The Belligerent Miss Boynton",
          "text": "I was always a slow study, imp, but I made my own decisions.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Vance G. Morgan, Freelance Christianity: Philosophy, Faith, and the Real World, page 68",
          "text": "Although I'm a very slow study, Annie Dillard's simple observation is beginning to seep in.",
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        }
      ],
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        "One who takes a long time to learn or understand things; a slow learner."
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        "(US) One who takes a long time to learn or understand things; a slow learner."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slow, study."
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