different between diligence vs rigour

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)

1. Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
2. The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
3. Carefulness.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   due diligence

4. (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.
5. (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)

1. (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)

1. (uncountable) diligence, conscientiousness
2. (uncountable) haste
3. (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).

English

Alternative forms

• rigor (US)

Etymology

From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????(?)/
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Homophones: rigor, rigger

Noun

rigour (countable and uncountable, plural rigours)

1. Severity or strictness.
   • 1611, King James Version, Exodus 1:13–14:

     And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

2. Harshness, as of climate.
3. A trembling or shivering response.
4. Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
5. Shrewd questioning.
6. Higher level of difficulty. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. (Britain) Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”).

Related terms

• rigid
• rigorous
• rigorousness

Translations

Further reading

• rigour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rigour in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.