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Definition
hard work and care in tasks — often continuing when others might quit because of difficulties
- and on the river was a boat, also diligently employed for some mysterious end.Chapter 2 (2% in)
diligently = conscientiously (with care and hard work)
- He had ascended it, that diligent and rather obscure master, possibly with an eye to business, possibly for the joy of ascending.Chapter 6 (60% in)
There are no more uses of "diligent" in A Room With A View.
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