Both Uses
diligent
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
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- The chief, and almost the only, business of the Syphogrants is to take care that no man may live idle, but that every one may follow his trade diligently;†
*diligently = with hard work and care
- and if some few women are diligent, their husbands are idle: then consider the great company of idle priests, and of those that are called religious men;†
diligent = 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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(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.