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Sedulity   Listen
noun
Sedulity  n.  The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness. "The industrious bee, by his sedulity in summer, lives in honey all the winter."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sedulity" Quotes from Famous Books



... babes, well nourished, fed, and fostered with good milk, sleep soundly and profoundly, the nurses in the interim get leave to sport themselves, and are licentiated to recreate their fancies at what range to them shall seem most fitting and expedient, their presence, sedulity, and attendance on the cradle being, during all that space, held unnecessary. Even just so, when our body is at rest, that the concoction is everywhere accomplished, and that, till it awake, it lacks for nothing, our soul delighteth to disport itself and is well pleased in that frolic to take ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais



Words linked to "Sedulity" :   sedulousness, diligence, sedulous



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