assiduity
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Despite his scholarly assiduity, Metcalfe is moving down an errant path that will never square the facts with lived experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
The House gave him a reference stating that he "acted with a very high degree of professionalism. He showed discretion, loyalty, assiduity and efficiency... there were no disciplinary issues affecting him".
From BBC ● May 1, 2018
All it takes is commitment and a little assiduity.
From Time ● Jan. 9, 2016
"There are no trees. The people are unhealthy in appearance - a circumstance which is attributed to their assiduity in pearl diving, which places a severe strain on the human constitution."
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2014
I do not regret pulling out the leaves of this book to make a lesson-book for my friends, though I approach its end: Their pleasure and assiduity repay me.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Night and day I will watch and tend you, till the assiduities of my affection weary out the effects of your cruel disease brought on you—O God!—by your grief for me, your worthless Espras.”
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson
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
Once or twice I thought of him, and with an indistinct feeling of self-reproach; but I was occupied with the assiduities of my new admirer, and had no leisure to consider of propriety.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
And such, no doubt, if meant as attentions to herself, would have been many humble assiduities, which, for Caroline's sake, he willingly paid her ladyship.
From Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 1 of 3) by Margracia Loudon
No assiduities 19 can win him to take the least notice of the crew, and I soon discovered, that, when the captain and myself were below, he endured many a persecution.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
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Jane Eyre
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