Both Uses
diligent
in
The First Seven Years
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- Yet he could not help but contrast the diligence of the boy, who was a peddler's son, with Miriam's unconcern for an education.†
*diligence = hard work and care
- As for education, what was it, she asked, but books, which Sobel, who diligently read the classics, would as usual advise her on.†
diligently = with hard work and care
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) 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.