different between diligence vs conscientous
diligence
English
Etymology
From French diligence.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?l?d??ns/
- Hyphenation: di?li?gence
- The stage-coach sense may be pronounced as in French.
Noun
diligence (countable and uncountable, plural diligences)
- Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
- The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
- Carefulness.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- due diligence
- (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:
- (law, 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.
Synonyms
- worksomeness (rare)
Derived terms
- due diligence
Translations
Anagrams
- ceilinged
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French diligence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?di.li???ns/, /?di.li???n.s?/
- Hyphenation: di?li?gen?ce
Noun
diligence f (plural diligences)
- (historical) A diligence, a stage-coach.
- Synonym: postkoets
French
Etymology
From Latin diligentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.li.???s/
Noun
diligence f (countable and uncountable, plural diligences)
- (uncountable) diligence, conscientiousness
- (uncountable) haste
- (countable) stage-coach, diligence
Derived terms
- faire diligence
Related terms
- diligent
Descendants
- ? Dutch: diligence
Further reading
- “diligence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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conscientous
English
Adjective
conscientous (comparative more conscientous, superlative most conscientous)
- Misspelling of conscientious.
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