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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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diligent
English
Etymology
From Middle English diligent, from Old French diligent, from Latin d?lig?ns (“careful, attentive, diligent”), present participle of d?lig? (“to love, esteem much, literally to choose, select”), from d?-, dis- (“apart”) + leg? (“to choose”); see elect and select.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?l?d??nt/
Adjective
diligent (comparative more diligent, superlative most diligent)
- Performing with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused.
Alternative forms
- deligent (archaic)
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:industrious
Derived terms
- diligently
Related terms
- diligence
Translations
Further reading
- diligent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- diligent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin diligens.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /di.li??ent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /di.li??en/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /di.li?d??ent/
Adjective
diligent (masculine and feminine plural diligents)
- diligent (performing with intense concentration)
Derived terms
- diligentment
Related terms
- diligència
Further reading
- “diligent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Latin diligens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.li.???/
Adjective
diligent (feminine singular diligente, masculine plural diligents, feminine plural diligentes)
- diligent (performing with intense concentration)
Derived terms
- diligemment
Related terms
- diligence
Further reading
- “diligent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
d?ligent
- third-person plural future active indicative of d?lig?
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