Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Persevering and constant in effort or application; assiduous. synonym: diligent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Diligent in application or in the pursuit of an object; constant, steady, and persevering; steadily industrious; assiduous.
- Synonyms See
assiduity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Diligent in application or pursuit;
constant , steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious;assiduous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by care and persistent effort
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And now a very strange argument ensues, me versus the Lebanese porter, because, I now understand, I am putting this guy, who barely speaks English, in a terrible kind of sedulous service double bind, a paradox of pampering:
Story pick: Funniest vacation story ever (that didn't appear in National Lampoon) 2010
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Shortly after the success of the original novel Disney announced that a book series entitled Stories From East High would be published in February 2007 with a Hi, a harry is much less physic than this sedulous From.
Planet-x.com.au » Stories From East High birthday – kids gift harry little 2010
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Our usual interjection again to a sedulous hosts, Messrs. Friedman, Madeira as good as Pope.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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James's executor was Alice James, the wife of Henry's older brother, the philosopher William James, and the woman who had nursed him with sedulous care through his last illness.
The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012
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Our usual interjection again to a sedulous hosts, Messrs. Friedman, Madeira as good as Pope.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval -- and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances, which call forth a woman's sedulous attention.
Chapter 18 2010
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Is it true that some of the symptoms of Swine Flue are sedulous grunting, desire to lie in the mud, and the smell of bacon frying brings tears to ones eyes?
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It can seem as if he is not a racing driver at all, but an actor, playing a role with sedulous care.
McLaren's Jenson Button still inspired by the magic of Monaco 2011
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Is it true that some of the symptoms of Swine Flue are sedulous grunting, desire to lie in the mud, and the smell of bacon frying brings tears to ones eyes?
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And a disciplined population, that rose at last by sedulous begging on birthdays and all convenient occasions to well over two hundred, of lead sailors and soldiers, horse, foot and artillery, inhabited this world.
Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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November 11, 2009
supbob91 commented on the word sedulous
found in Merriam Webster's Dictionary pg 72
November 15, 2010
qms commented on the word sedulous
We all know how hard the man tries
But, oh, the strange stories he buys!
While Ernest is sedulous
He's hopelessly credulous.
He can't tell the truth from the lies.
For more on the naive (but very useful) Ernest Bafflewit see cahot, methinks and cinquecento.
May 10, 2014