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inˈdustriousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being industrious: = industry 3.
1591Savile Tacitus, Hist. ii. xc. 106 Extolling his own industriousness and temperancy. 1619Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1630) 393 The Pismire can teach the Sluggard prouidence, and industriousnesse. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) II. 269 The characteristic independence and industriousness of our nation. 1881H. Spencer tr. Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 1 Industrialism is not to be confounded with industriousness. |