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Assiduously

Assiduous \As*sid"u*ous\, a. [L. assiduus, fr. assid?re to sit near or close; ad + sed[=e]re to sit. See Sit.]

  1. Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.

    She grows more assiduous in her attendance.
    --Addison.

  2. Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor.

    To weary him with my assiduous cries.
    --Milton.

    Syn: Diligent; attentive; sedulous; unwearied; unintermitted; persevering; laborious; indefatigable. [1913 Webster] As*sid"u*ous*ly, adv. -- As*sid"u*ous*ness, n.

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assiduously

adv. In an assiduous manner.

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assiduously

adv. with care and persistence; "she worked assiduously on the senior thesis"

Usage examples of "assiduously".

In the course of a few weeks, and by assiduously conversing with Herr Kirsch on the box of the carriage, Georgy made prodigious advance in the knowledge of High Dutch, and could talk to hotel waiters and postilions in a way that charmed his mother and amused his guardian.

While the emperor Majorian assiduously labored to restore the happiness and virtue of the Romans, he encountered the arms of Genseric, from his character and situation their most formidable enemy.

The popular monks, whose reputation was connected with the fame and success of the order, assiduously labored to multiply the number of their fellow-captives.

While he indulged the people of Constantinople, and received the addresses of foreign kings, the nephew of Justin assiduously cultivated the friendship of the senate.

The inhabitants, instead of deserting their houses, or hiding their corn, supplied the Romans with a fair and liberal market: the civil officers of the province continued to exercise their functions in the name of Justinian: and the clergy, from motives of conscience and interest, assiduously labored to promote the cause of a Catholic emperor.

Heraclius himself, with the skill and patience of a centurion, inculcated the lessons of the school of tactics, and the soldiers were assiduously trained in the use of their weapons, and the exercises and evolutions of the field.

According to Phranza, he assiduously studied the lives and actions of Alexander, Augustus, Constantine, and Theodosius.

Binny, the mild and genteel curate of the district chapel, which the family attended, call assiduously upon the widow, dandle the little boy on his knee, and offer to teach him Latin, to the anger of the elderly virgin, his sister, who kept house for him?

Hampshire public, subscribed handsomely to the county charities, called assiduously upon all the county folk, and laid himself out in a word to take that position in Hampshire, and in the Empire afterwards, to which he thought his prodigious talents justly entitled him.

But he attended assiduously in his place and learned thoroughly the routine and business of the House.

They my-loved and my-deared each other assiduously, but kept apart generally, whereas Sir Pitt, in the midst of his multiplied avocations, found daily time to see his sister-in-law.

He has worked assiduously to make Iraq strong so that it can dominate the region militarily, acquire new territorial prizes, and become the champion of the Arabs.

Moon man, and having cleared the way intellectually for the great experiment, he now worked assiduously to make it succeed.

He had sagacity enough to cultivate assiduously the acquaintance of Johnson, and his faculties were gradually enlarged by the contemplation of such a model.

The love of dancing was instinctive with her, and this, unknown to Hugh, her mother cultivated assiduously, fostering in her everything that was imaginative and delicately fanciful.