Both Uses of
diligent
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- The competitors for this office sought as diligently to please their overseers, as the office-seekers in the political parties seek to please and deceive the people.†
Chpt 2diligently = with hard work and care
- That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought;
Chpt 6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(diligent as in: she is diligent) hard work and care in tasks -- often continuing when others might quit because of difficulties
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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.