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) 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.