diligence
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈdɪlɪdʒəns/
diligence
- Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
- The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
- Carefulness.
- (historical, 19th century) A public stage-coach.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume 1, Chapter V:
- Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume 1, Chapter V:
- (legal, Scotland) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
- worksomeness rare
- German: Sorgfalt
- Russian: рачительность
- French: diligence
- German: Fleiß, Eifer
- Portuguese: diligência
- Russian: усе́рдие
- Spanish: diligencia, esmero
- French: diligence
- Portuguese: diligência
- Russian: дилижа́нс
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