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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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proactive
English
Etymology
pro- +? active; originally coined 1933 by Paul Whiteley and Gerald Blankfort in a psychology paper, used in technical sense. Used in a popular context and sense (courage, perseverance) in 1946 book Man’s Search for Meaning by neuropsychiatrist Viktor Emil Frankl, in the context of dealing with the Holocaust, as contrast with reactive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p????ækt?v/
- Rhymes: -ækt?v
Adjective
proactive (comparative more proactive, superlative most proactive)
- Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty
Usage notes
Some consider proactive to be a buzzword, and it is associated with business-speak.
Depending on use, alternatives include active, preemptive, or “show initiative” instead of “be proactive”.
Synonyms
- anticipatory
- forward-looking
Antonyms
- reactive
Derived terms
- proactively
- proactivity
- proaction
- proactiveness
Related terms
- preactive
- proact
- proactor
Translations
References
- The Word Detective, Issue of February 5, 2001
French
Adjective
proactive
- feminine singular of proactif
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