sedulity

[ si-doo-li-tee, -dyoo- ]

noun

1. sedulous quality, application, or activity; diligence.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sedulity¹

1535–45; < Latin sēdulitās, equivalent to sēdul ( us ) sedulous + -itās -ity

Example Sentences

Moreover, the king was in the habit of hearing the divine scriptures read by his own countrymen, or, if by any chance it so happened, in company with foreigners, and he attended to it with sedulity and solicitude.

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I have served you with successless sedulity.

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We have beene reputed a Colluvies of wild Opinionists, swarmed into a remote wildernes to find elbow-roome for our phanatick Doctrines and practises: I trust our diligence past, and constant sedulity against such persons and courses, will plead better things for us.

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To this labor, this watchfulness, this sedulity of endeavor, the crown of life is expressly promised, and salvation is not less the free gift of God, because he has annexed certain conditions to our obtaining it.

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He did not write very rapidly; and he corrected, both in MS. and in proof, with the utmost sedulity.

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