Both Uses
diligent
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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- Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very long.†
Chpt 2diligence = hard work and care
- You have been reading the papers diligently of late, have you not?
Chpt 10 *diligently = carefully each day
Definitions:
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(1)
(diligent as in: she is diligent) working carefully and steadily with effort and attention to detail
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More specifically in law, diligence or due diligence refers to the care or attention expected by the law in doing something such as fulfilling the terms of a contract.
More rarely, but sometimes seen in classic literature, a diligence is a public stagecoach.