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Definition of 'sedulous'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous.
  • * 2001 Pollan, Michael , The Botany of Desire , Random House, New York, page 135:
  • With the right equipment, an indoor grower could create a utopia for his plants, an artificial habitat more perfect than any in nature, [...]. These sedulous attentions would be wasted on male plants, which are worse than useless in sinsemilla production.
  • * 2010 Paul Routledge , Daily Mirror , 9 March 2010 [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scotland-is-turning-into-another-country-loch-756030]:
  • The Scots have always been a fiercely independent people, but it surprised me how far this sedulous process of separation has gone already.

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