assiduity

Despite his scholarly assiduity, Metcalfe is moving down an errant path that will never square the facts with lived experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

The House gave him a reference stating that he "acted with a very high degree of professionalism. He showed discretion, loyalty, assiduity and efficiency... there were no disciplinary issues affecting him".

From BBC ● May 1, 2018

All it takes is commitment and a little assiduity.

From Time ● Jan. 9, 2016

"There are no trees. The people are unhealthy in appearance - a circumstance which is attributed to their assiduity in pearl diving, which places a severe strain on the human constitution."

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2014

“Be firm, Herbert,” I would retort, plying my own pen with great assiduity.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Once or twice I thought of him, and with an indistinct feeling of self-reproach; but I was occupied with the assiduities of my new admirer, and had no leisure to consider of propriety.

From Discipline by Mary Brunton

Despite their assiduities I was seized with ennui.

From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière

Night and day I will watch and tend you, till the assiduities of my affection weary out the effects of your cruel disease brought on you—O God!—by your grief for me, your worthless Espras.”

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson

The tender assiduities of birds in their attachments is no less remarkable than their courage in defence of their mates and young ones.

From The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous

What though his uncouth gestures provoked a smile, and his assiduities to the young lady were commented on at every hand.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various