All 4 Uses of
assiduous
in
Jane Eyre
- , with assiduous celerity.†
p. 142.4 *
- Georgiana took out her handkerchief and blew her nose for an hour afterwards; Eliza sat cold, impassable, and assiduously industrious.†
p. 272.8assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
- Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.†
p. 403.8
- 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.†
p. 430.4assiduously = diligently (with care and persistent effort)
Definition:
showing careful, steady, and persistent effort