All 3 Uses of
diligent
in
Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl - Definitive Edition
- I'm currently going through a dance and ballet craze and am diligently practicing my dance steps every evening.
p. 180.6 *diligently = carefully and persistently
- Although I'm extremely diligent when it comes to my schoolwork and can pretty much follow the BBC Home Service on the radio, I still spend many of my Sundays sorting out and looking over my movie-star collection, which has grown to a very respectable size.†
p. 190.6diligent = hard work and care
- Despite the miserable weather, the planes are flying diligently back and forth.†
p. 337.5diligently = with hard work and care
Definitions:
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(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) 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.