Definition of Diligence

Dil´i`gence
n.1.The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; - the opposite of negligence.
2.Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.
3.(Scots Law) Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
To do one's diligence
to exert one's self; to make interested and earnest endeavor.
1.A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.


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