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SEDULOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sedulous mean?
• SEDULOUS (adjective)
The adjective SEDULOUS has 1 sense:
1. marked by care and persistent effort
Familiarity information: SEDULOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: sedulousest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by care and persistent effort
Synonyms:
assiduous; sedulous
Context example:
sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles
Similar:
diligent (characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks)
Derivation:
sedulity; sedulousness (the quality of being constantly diligent and attentive)
Context examples
He now begs them to search with most sedulous care, and should any of the same quality be left, forward it to him at once.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval—and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances which call forth a woman’s sedulous attention.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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