Both Uses of
diligent
in
Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Here and there boys with hoes smoothed out little patches of roadway, making shows of their diligence, then lifting their hands in the hope of reward.
Chpt 1.3 *diligence = hard work and care
- A small, elegant woman walking across the local golf course when her children were too young to play alone, diligently trying to make sense of American sports so she could understand her children's milieu.†
Chpt 3.19diligently = with hard work and care
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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(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.