Synonyms:
diligent, persevering
Meaning: quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business"
Usage examples
Diligent search is making after the rogues.
Letty was diligent in business, but it never got into her heart.
The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear.
He wrote soon after, and from that time our correspondence began to be a very diligent one.
Those of the city next day made diligent search for him in the woods, where they concluded him to be.
After considering him attentively, I recognized in him a diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works, which bustled off well with the trade.
As however, in spite of the most diligent search, I cannot lay my hands upon this little book, I must confess that I entertain considerable doubt on the subject.
The pirates knowing these seasons (being very diligent in their inquiries) always cruise between the places above-mentioned; but in case they light on no considerable booty, they commonly undertake some more hazardous enterprises: one remarkable instance of which I shall here give you.
God knows, 'twas not with a fore-reasoned plan I left the easeful dwellings of my peace, And sought this combat with ungodly Man, And ceaseless still through years that do not cease Have warred with Powers and Principalities. My natural soul, ere yet these strifes began, Was as a sister diligent to please And loving all, and most the human clan.