Both Uses of
diligent
in
A Room With A View
- 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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(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.