All 5 Uses of
diligent
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- During her three years of library work several men showed diligent interest in her—the treasurer of a fur-manufacturing firm, a teacher, a newspaper reporter, and a petty railroad official.†
Chpt 1diligent = hard work and care
- By diligent consultation of American fiction she discovered that this was the only virile and amusing manner in which boys could function; that boys who were not compounded of the gutter and the mining-camp were mollycoddles and unhappy.†
Chpt 9
- Raymie was diligent and rather strong.†
Chpt 23
- She had a hen-like, crumb-pecking, diligent appearance.†
Chpt 30
- She was diligent at Red Cross work.
Chpt 35 *
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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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) 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.