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diligence
1[ dil-i-juhns ]
noun
- constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind.
- Law. the degree of care and caution required by the circumstances of a person.
- Obsolete. care; caution.
diligence
2[ dil-i-juhns; French dee-lee-zhahns ]
noun
- a public stagecoach, especially as formerly used in France.
diligence
1/ diliʒɑ̃s; ˈdɪlɪdʒəns /
noun
- history a stagecoach
diligence
2/ ˈdɪlɪdʒəns /
noun
- steady and careful application
- proper attention or care
- law the degree of care required in a given situation
Word History and Origins
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Origin of diligence2
Word History and Origins
Origin of diligence1
Origin of diligence2
Example Sentences
It has allowed the project to bypass normal due diligence and environmental impact assessments.
Well, the Attorney General had to do their due diligence to find out where the mistakes were made, and what happened.
Ferret is a carefully chosen comparison, implying diligence but absolutely no imagination.
What he may lack in leadership or due diligence skills, he makes up for in his abilities to whip the media into subservience.
Tom wanted to meet with me, so I wanted to do my due diligence before I met him and went online and looked at his credits.
As judge, I set about collecting his property with much diligence, involving considerable hardship.
Mais il fut garenti par la diligence des matelots, qui lui tendirent vne corde, par laquelle il se sauva.
Mary was on the contrary so far subdued, as to be exemplary in goodness and diligence, and Blanche was always steady.
Her time she devoted, with unremitting diligence, to those literary avocations in which she found so much delight.
She must prepare herself, by habits of diligence and economy, to become a poor man's wife.
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