Diligence /(?)/

Dil·i·gence

Diligence

n.
  1. The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.
  2. Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.
    That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.
  3. Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings. (Scots Law)
    And each of them doth all his diligence To do unto the festé reverence.
    The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.
    Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer ascribe to himself.

Phrases & Compounds
To do one's diligence
to exert one's self; to make interested and earnest endeavor.

Diligence

n.
  1. A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.