- plural of assiduity.
assiduities
Example Sentences
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Your best chance would be to double your assiduities to Miss Alscrip.
From The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts by John Burgoyne
Do you not feel within your own breast a repugnance to the assiduities he at all times takes pains to shew you?
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
As if my good genius warned me of my fate, I disliked him so much at first, that I felt unhappy in his presence; but his assiduities gradually won upon me.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
But, in spite of this precaution, they could not escape the assiduities of some gay men of fashion, who knew Glenmurray and admired his companion; and Adeline at length suspected that Glenmurray was jealous.
From Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter by Amelia Alderson Opie
My purse, my ornaments, my amusements, even the assiduities of my admirers, all on which my foolish heart was most fixed, I freely shared with her.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
