Diligence
['dɪlɪdʒ(ə)ns] or ['dɪlɪdʒəns]
Definition
(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'.
Editor: Wallace--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Patty
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Assiduity (in some specific pursuit), assiduousness, activity, sedulousness, perseverance, INDUSTRY, steady application (to some pursuit that one likes).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Care, assiduity, attention, application, heed, industry
ANT:Indifference, carelessness, neglect, inattention, heedlessness, desultoriness,inertness, idleness
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Examples
- Upon this history, therefore, mechanical and illiberal as it may seem (all fineness and daintiness set aside), the greatest diligence must be bestowed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- At all events, Miss Ophelia knew of nothing else to do; and, therefore, applied her mind to her heathen with the best diligence she could command. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The native faculties of his mind qualified him to penetrate into every science: and his unremitted diligence left no field of knowledge unexplored. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Have they contributed to encourage the diligence, and to improve the abilities, of the teachers? Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The usual diligence and order of the Counting-house at the Works were overthrown. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In the case of Lincoln, for example, we find that in his youth he was as distinguishe d by diligence in study as by physical stature and prowess. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I never saw a busier person than she seemed to be; yet it was difficult to say what she did: or rather, to discover any result of her diligence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At a bureau, the diligence stopped, and the passengers alighted. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There will not be the smallest occasion for your coming to town again; therefore stay quiet at Longbourn, and depend on my diligence and care. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Also fearing for the worst, we telegraphed for a large number of seats in the diligence for Damascus, and horses for the ruins of Baalbec. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Let us, then, up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- By the by'; he laid down his knife and fork, which he had been using with great diligence, and began feeling in his pockets; 'I have a letter for you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The distribution of these epices, too, is according to the diligence of the judges. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Several different expedients, however, may be fallen upon, which will effectually blunt the edge of all those incitements to diligence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At first I had neglected them; but now that I was able to decypher the characters in which they were written, I began to study them with diligence. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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