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Diligence Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Diligence? [n] a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious application" [n] conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation [n] persevering determination to perform a task; "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Diligence: application \| industriousness \| industry Related Terms \| Find terms related to Diligence: advertence \| advertency \| alertness \| application \| ardor \| assiduity \| assiduousness \| attention \| attention span \| attentiveness \| awareness \| bookishness \| bulldog tenacity \| care \| concentration \| consciousness \| consideration \| constancy \| dogged perseverance \| doggedness \| ear \| earnestness \| endurance \| energeticalness \| energy \| engrossment \| fervor \| fidelity \| heed \| heedfulness \| indefatigability \| industriousness \| industry \| insistence \| insistency \| intentiveness \| intentness \| laboriousness \| loyalty \| mindfulness \| note \| notice \| observance \| observation \| obstinacy \| pains \| painstaking \| painstakingness \| patience \| patience of Job \| permanence \| perseverance \| persistence \| persistency \| pertinaciousness \| pertinacity \| plodding \| plugging \| preoccupation \| regard \| regardfulness \| relentlessness \| remark \| resolution \| respect \| scholarliness \| scholarship \| sedulity \| sedulousness \| single-mindedness \| singleness of purpose \| slogging \| stability \| stamina \| staying power \| steadfastness \| steadiness \| stick-to-itiveness \| strenuousness \| stubbornness \| studiousness \| tenaciousness \| tenacity \| thoroughgoingness \| thoroughness \| thought \| tirelessness \| unremittingness \| unsparingness \| unswerving attention \| vehemence \| zealousness See Also \| assiduity \| assiduousness \| concentration \| conscientiousness \| determination \| effort \| elbow grease \| exertion \| painstakingness \| purpose \| sedulity \| sedulousness \| studiousness \| sweat \| travail Diligence In Webster's Dictionary \Dil"igence\, n. [F. diligence, L. diligentia.] 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. --Shak. 3. (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. {To do one's diligence}, {give diligence}, {use diligence}, to exert one's self; to make interested and earnest endeavor. And each of them doth all his diligence To do unto the fest['e] reverence. --Chaucer. Syn: Attention; industry; assiduity; sedulousness; earnestness; constancy; heed; heedfulness; care; caution. -- {Diligence}, {Industry}. Industry has the wider sense of the two, implying an habitual devotion to labor for some valuable end, as knowledge, property, etc. Diligence denotes earnest application to some specific object or pursuit, which more or less directly has a strong hold on one's interests or feelings. A man may be diligent for a time, or in seeking some favorite end, without meriting the title of industrious. Such was the case with Fox, while Burke was eminent not only for diligence, but industry; he was always at work, and always looking out for some new field of mental effort. The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to. --Shak. Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer ascribe to himself. --Gibbon. \Di`ligence"\, n. [F.] A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

Diligence Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Diligence?

[n] a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious application"
[n] conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
[n] persevering determination to perform a task; "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Diligence: application | industriousness | industry

Diligence In Webster's Dictionary

\Dil"i*gence\, n. [F. diligence, L. diligentia.]
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.  --Shak.

3. (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.

{To do one's diligence}, {give diligence}, {use diligence},
   to exert one's self; to make interested and earnest
   endeavor.

         And each of them doth all his diligence To do unto
         the fest['e] reverence.               --Chaucer.

Syn: Attention; industry; assiduity; sedulousness;
     earnestness; constancy; heed; heedfulness; care;
     caution. -- {Diligence}, {Industry}. Industry has the
     wider sense of the two, implying an habitual devotion to
     labor for some valuable end, as knowledge, property,
     etc. Diligence denotes earnest application to some
     specific object or pursuit, which more or less directly
     has a strong hold on one's interests or feelings. A man
     may be diligent for a time, or in seeking some favorite
     end, without meriting the title of industrious. Such was
     the case with Fox, while Burke was eminent not only for
     diligence, but industry; he was always at work, and
     always looking out for some new field of mental effort.

           The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for
           the end it works to.                --Shak.

           Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which
           an historical writer ascribe to himself. --Gibbon.


\Di`li*gence"\, n. [F.]
A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

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