Both Uses of
diligent
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
- 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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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) 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.