All 3 Uses
diligent
in
The Miserable Mill
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- The owner of Lucky Smells Lumbermill expects you to be both assiduous and diligent.†
p. 17.7diligent = hard work and care
- What do those words mean, 'assiduous' and 'diligent'?†
p. 17.8
- "'Assiduous' and 'diligent' both mean the same thing," said Klaus, who knew lots of impressive words from all the books he had read.†
p. 17.9 *
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.