Both Uses
diligent
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A Room With A View
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- and on the river was a boat, also diligently employed for some mysterious end.
Chpt 2 *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.†
Chpt 6diligent = 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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(2)
(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.