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diligent
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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- I foolishly believed that if I was diligent, I would inspire Beautiful Moon to be diligent too.†
Chpt 3 *diligent = hard work and care
- I foolishly believed that if I was diligent, I would inspire Beautiful Moon to be diligent too.†
Chpt 3
- And if she was diligent, perhaps she would marry better than her mother had.†
Chpt 3
- Instead she was unusually subdued, even as she sang the proper words during our chanting and worked diligently on the third-day weddingbook she was making for me.†
Chpt 10diligently = with hard work and care
- Peony was diligent in her studies, but one day she said to me, "My writing is crude.†
Chpt 19diligent = 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.