All 3 Uses of
diligent
in
Killing Kennedy
- But he spent hours on the firing range back in his Marine Corps days, and these last few weeks, he has been diligently working on his shot down in the dry bed of the Trinity River, using the levee walls as a backstop.†
p. 159.4 *diligently = with hard work and care
- He is also a diligent investigator and thinks nothing of going out of his way to visit the home of Ruth Paine even as his Friday shift comes to an end.†
p. 232.3diligent = hard work and care
- Lawson's diligence is soon rewarded when the FBI comes forth with the name of a Dallas-area resident who might be a serious threat to the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†
p. 234.3
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.