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- At three tomorrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you.†
p. 10.3diligence = hard work and care
- When they have gone, my carriage shall come for you, and shall bear you to the Borgo Pass to meet the diligence from Bukovina to Bistritz.†
p. 57.4 *
- He has the strength of many of his hand, witness again Jonathan when he shut the door against the wolves, and when he help him from the diligence too.†
p. 255.2
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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(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.