indefatigability

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He dented the consciousness of several important men in his own field, and got praised in the press for his indefatigability and his powers of persuasion.

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  1. The state or quality of being indefatigable; unweariedness; persistency. His indefatigability of study cannot be paralleled. Life of Bp. Andrews (1650).

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  • Who knows, perhaps since that day West Ham have been buoyed by a sense of indefatigability and have accrued undeserved points as a result. —  Can't Stop The Bleeding
  • For someone who claims he didn't admire Saddam (but who "salute [d his] courage, strength and indefatigability"), you might as well have blown his genocidal Iraqi dick. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
  • On a visit to Iraq in 1994, he told Hussein, "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability."
  • Prem sees Jamal's indefatigability as reminscent of his own, and endeavors to first sabotage it, and then undermine its validity. —  Desicritics
  • These are the sort of fixtures that bring out indefatigability in Rafael Benítez's side, who have now beaten these opponents three times in a row. ' —  TEAMtalk Football News
 

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