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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Earnest and persistent application to an undertaking; steady effort; assiduity.
  2. n. Attentive care; heedfulness.
  3. n. A large stagecoach.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; constancy in the performance of duty or the conduct of business; persistent exertion of body or mind; industry; assiduity.
  2. n. Care; heed; caution; heedfulness.
  3. n. In law, the attention and care due from a person in a given situation. The degree of care necessary to constitute diligence depends on the relation of the persons concerned to each other and the circumstances of the transaction.
  4. n. In Scots law: The warrant issued by a court for enforcing tho attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
  5. n. The process of law by which persons, lands, or effects are attached on execution, or in security for debt.
  6. n. Synonyms Industry, Application, etc. (see assiduity), assiduousness.
  7. n. Caution, circumspection, vigilance.
  8. n. A public stage-coach: usually with reference to France, but also applied to such stage-coaches elsewhere.

Wiktionary

  1. n. conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something
  2. n. religion One of the seven contrary virtues, opposite the vice of sloth.
  3. n. A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.
  2. n. Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.
  3. n. (Scots Law) Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
  4. n. A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a diligent effort
  2. n. persevering determination to perform a task
  3. n. conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation

Etymologies

  1. French, from (carrosse de) diligence, speed (coach), from Old French, diligence, from Latin dīligentia, from dīligēns, dīligent-, diligent; see diligent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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