All 4 Uses of
assiduous
in
Jane Eyre
- , with assiduous celerity.†
Chpt 13 *
- Georgiana took out her handkerchief and blew her nose for an hour afterwards; Eliza sat cold, impassable, and assiduously industrious.†
Chpt 21
- Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.†
Chpt 30
- Fancy me yielding and melting, as I am doing: human love rising like a freshly opened fountain in my mind and overflowing with sweet inundation all the field I have so carefully and with such labour prepared — so assiduously sown with the seeds of good intentions, of self-denying plans.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(assiduous) diligent (showing care and persistent effort)