diligence

[Dil·i*gence]

If you practice diligence, you are a hard and careful worker. Do you have the diligence to read all the collected works of Henry James? Of course not. Nobody has, but a couple of his early novels won't hurt.

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The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

Noun
a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious application"

Noun
conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation

Noun
persevering determination to perform a task; "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"

n.
The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

n.
Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.

n.
Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

n.
A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

Diligence

Dil"i*gence , n. [F. diligence, L. diligentia.] 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.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.

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, give diligence, use diligence, to exert one's self; to make interested and earnest endeavor.

And each of them doth all his diligence To do unto the fest'82 reverence.

Syn. -- Attention; industry; assiduity; sedulousness; earnestness; constancy; heed; heedfulness; care; caution. -- Diligence, Industry. Industry has the wider sense of the two, implying an habitual devotion to labor for some valuable end, as knowledge, property, etc. Diligence denotes earnest application to some specific object or pursuit, which more or less directly has a strong hold on one's interests or feelings. A man may be diligent for a time, or in seeking some favorite end, without meriting the title of industrious. Such was the case with Fox, while Burke was eminent not only for diligence, but industry; he was always at work, and always looking out for some new field of mental effort.

The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer ascribe to himself.

Diligence

Di`li*gence" , n. [F.] A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

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Usage Examples

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

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Other Usage Examples

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.