assiduity

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They had been filling the plates and glasses of these two ladies all the way from Calcutta; they had walked with them every day on deck, had fetched their chairs, picked up their handkerchiefs, and looked after their bottled beer at tiffin-time with an assiduity which is more than commendable in such warm latitudes.

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  1. noun Persistent application or diligence; unflagging effort.
  2. noun Constant personal attention and often obsequious solicitude. Often used in the plural.

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  • I labored with assiduity, and the abbe bestowed his attention with a degree of kindness, the remembrance of which, even at this time, both interests and softens me. —  The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Entire
  • The motive of this assiduity was at length revealed to me, by a violent and fervent declaration of love, which astonished and perplexed me. —  Beaux and Belles of England
  • Exclusive of my assiduity, the means I took must not be told; it is sufficient that I here learnt what judges were, and thus am enabled to describe them to others For a few ducats, the president's servant used to admit me into a closet where I could see everything as perfectly as if I had myself been one of the council. —  Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck
  • But all his assiduity was without effect, for he could neither soften her heart, nor open her hand, and while he was endeavouring to rouse the affections of a mother, he was reduced to the miseries of want. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), Vol. V.
  • I do not doubt but my assiduity was very agreeable to him. —  AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MADAME GUYON
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  1. = French assiduité, from Latin assiduita(t-)s, from assiduus: see assiduous.
 

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