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 2
- That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought;
Chpt 6 *diligently = with hard work and care
Definition:
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(diligent as in: she is diligent) hard work and care in tasks -- often continuing when others might quit because of difficulties