noun. A public stage-coach: usually with reference to France, but also applied to such stage-coaches elsewhere.

noun. Constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; constancy in the performance of duty or the conduct of business; persistent exertion of body or mind; industry; assiduity.

noun. Care; heed; caution; heedfulness.

noun. In law, the attention and care due from a person in a given situation.

noun. In Scots law: The warrant issued by a court for enforcing tho attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

noun. The process of law by which persons, lands, or effects are attached on execution, or in security for debt.

noun. Synonyms Industry, Application, etc. (see assiduity), assiduousness.

noun. Caution, circumspection, vigilance.

noun. A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

noun. The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

noun. Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.

noun. Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

noun. to exert one's self; to make interested and earnest endeavor.

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noun. conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something

noun. One of the seven contrary virtues, opposite the vice of sloth.

noun. A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)

noun. a diligent effort

noun. persevering determination to perform a task

noun. conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation

"Such labor and diligence also is required in them that rule, whilst they are charged to rule _with diligence_, Rom.xii. 8, which is as much as _with labor_: yea, the common charity of Christians hath its labor; and this very word"

ordinary diligence  to do one's diligence  

due diligence  

conscientiousness  effort  elbow grease  exertion  painstakingness  

assiduity  bravery  earnestness  faithfulness  fidelity  

advertence  advertency  alertness  application  application