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assiduity

[as-i-doo-i-tee, -dyoo-]

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noun, plural as·si·du·i·ties.

constant or close application or effort; diligence; industry.

assiduities, devoted or solicitous attentions.

Origin:
1595–1605; < Latin assiduitās. See assiduous, -ity

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assiduity (ˌæsɪˈdjuːɪtɪ)

—n , pl -ties
1.	constant and close application
2.	(often plural) devoted attention

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assiduity

c.1600, from L. assiduatem "continual presence," noun of quality from assiduus (see assiduous).

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"Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.""

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