All 6 Uses
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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- The result of all this diligence was an enormous book,
Chpt 1 *diligence = hard work and care in tasks
- Yet for all his diligence Brother Juniper never knew the central passion of Dona Maria's life; nor of Uncle Pio's, not even of Esteban's.†
Chpt 1diligence = hard work and care
- I am told that in the convent the silly sisters inhale it so diligently that one cannot smell the incense at Mass.†
Chpt 2diligently = with hard work and care
- Yet she continued diligently in her task.†
Chpt 2
- At the age of ten he ran away to Madrid from his father's hacienda and was pursued without diligence.†
Chpt 4diligence = hard work and care
- Each soul was rated upon a basis often as regards its goodness, its diligence in religious observance, and its importance to its family group.†
Chpt 5
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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(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.