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n. - The quality of being constantly diligent and attentive.

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Usage examples (19)
  • Nor would he have scrupled a moment desiring him to leave the room, had he not prudently determined to guard with the utmost sedulity against raising any suspicions of...
  • And to instigate men unto an abounding sedulity in the observation of them, their minds were stuffed with traditions and stories of visions, apparitions, frightful...
  • There is nothing more operative than sedulity and diligence.
  • Yet, Lucy, we should all be pleased with the sedulity which we affect to ridicule.
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