different between unwearying vs sedulous

English

Etymology

From un- +? wearying.

Adjective

unwearying (comparative more unwearying, superlative most unwearying)

1. Untiring; not becoming tired.
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume I, Chapter 15,^[1]

     Mr. Collins repeated his apologies in quitting the room, and was assured with unwearying civility that they were perfectly needless.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 7,^[2]

     As a child that has fallen happily asleep in its nurse's arms, and wakes to find itself alone and laid in a strange place, and searches corners and cupboards, and runs from room to room, despair growing silently in its heart, even so Portly searched the island and searched, dogged and unwearying, till at last the black moment came for giving it up, and sitting down and crying bitterly.

   • 1915, Ezra Pound, “Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin” in Cathay, London: Elkin Mathews, p. 15,^[3]

     Night and day are given over to pleasure

     And they think it will last a thousand autumns,

     Unwearying autumns.

   Synonyms: inexhaustible, tireless, untiring, unflagging, indefatigable

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin s?dulus (“diligent, industrious, sedulous; solicitous; unremitting; zealous”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality, generally in abundance). S?dulus is probably derived from s?dul? (“diligently; carefully; purposely; zealously”) (possibly from s?- (prefix meaning ‘without’) + dol? (singular of dolus (“deceit, deception; evil intent, malice”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to count, reckon”))) + -us (suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?d???l?s/, /?s?dj?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?d???l?s/
• Hyphenation: se?dul?ous

Adjective

sedulous (comparative more sedulous, superlative most sedulous)

1. Of a person: diligent in application or pursuit; constant and persevering in business or in endeavours to effect a goal; steadily industrious.

   Synonyms: assiduous; see also Thesaurus:industrious
2. Of an activity: carried out with diligence.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVII [Uniform ed., p. 169]:

     He had much to learn about boys, and he learnt not by direct observation—for which he believed he was unfitted—but by sedulous imitation of the more experienced masters.

Derived terms

• sedulously
• sedulousness

Related terms

• sedulity

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References

Further reading

• diligence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sedulous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sedulous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sedulous at OneLook Dictionary Search