diligence 音标拼音: [d'ɪlədʒəns] [d'ɪlɪdʒəns]
n . 勤奋
勤奋
diligence n 1 :
conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task ;
giving the degree of care required in a given situation 2 :
persevering determination to perform a task ; "
his diligence won him quick promotions "; "
frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues " [
synonym : {
diligence }, {
industriousness },
{
industry }]
3 :
a diligent effort ; "
it is a job requiring serious application " [
synonym : {
application }, {
diligence }]
Diligence \
Di `
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n . [
F .]
A four -
wheeled public stagecoach ,
used in France .
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Diligence \
Dil "
i *
gence \,
n . [
F .
diligence ,
L .
diligentia .]
1 .
The quality of being diligent ;
carefulness ;
careful attention ; --
the opposite of negligence .
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2 .
Interested and persevering application ;
devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken ;
assiduity in service .
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That which ordinary men are fit for ,
I am qualified in ;
and the best of me is diligence . --
Shak .
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3 . (
Scots Law )
Process by which persons ,
lands ,
or effects are seized for debt ;
process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings .
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{
To do one '
s diligence }, {
give diligence }, {
use diligence },
to exert one '
s self ;
to make interested and earnest endeavor .
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And each of them doth all his diligence To do unto the fest ['
e ]
reverence . --
Chaucer .
Syn :
Attention ;
industry ;
assiduity ;
sedulousness ;
earnestness ;
constancy ;
heed ;
heedfulness ;
care ;
caution . -- {
Diligence }, {
Industry }.
Industry has the wider sense of the two ,
implying an habitual devotion to labor for some valuable end ,
as knowledge ,
property ,
etc .
Diligence denotes earnest application to some specific object or pursuit ,
which more or less directly has a strong hold on one '
s interests or feelings .
A man may be diligent for a time ,
or in seeking some favorite end ,
without meriting the title of industrious .
Such was the case with Fox ,
while Burke was eminent not only for diligence ,
but industry ;
he was always at work ,
and always looking out for some new field of mental effort .
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The sweat of industry would dry and die ,
But for the end it works to . --
Shak .
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Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer ascribe to himself . --
Gibbon .
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92 Moby Thesaurus words for "
diligence ":
advertence ,
advertency ,
alertness ,
application ,
ardor ,
assiduity ,
assiduousness ,
attention ,
attention span ,
attentiveness ,
awareness ,
bookishness ,
bulldog tenacity ,
care ,
concentration ,
consciousness ,
consideration ,
constancy ,
dogged perseverance ,
doggedness ,
ear ,
earnestness ,
endurance ,
energeticalness ,
energy ,
engrossment ,
fervor ,
fidelity ,
heed ,
heedfulness ,
indefatigability ,
industriousness ,
industry ,
insistence ,
insistency ,
intentiveness ,
intentness ,
laboriousness ,
loyalty ,
mindfulness ,
note ,
notice ,
observance ,
observation ,
obstinacy ,
pains ,
painstaking ,
painstakingness ,
patience ,
patience of Job ,
permanence ,
perseverance ,
persistence ,
persistency ,
pertinaciousness ,
pertinacity ,
plodding ,
plugging ,
preoccupation ,
regard ,
regardfulness ,
relentlessness ,
remark ,
resolution ,
respect ,
scholarliness ,
scholarship ,
sedulity ,
sedulousness ,
single -
mindedness ,
singleness of purpose ,
slogging ,
stability ,
stamina ,
staying power ,
steadfastness ,
steadiness ,
stick -
to -
itiveness ,
strenuousness ,
stubbornness ,
studiousness ,
tenaciousness ,
tenacity ,
thoroughgoingness ,
thoroughness ,
thought ,
tirelessness ,
unremittingness ,
unsparingness ,
unswerving attention ,
vehemence ,
zealousness DILIGENCE .
In Scotland ,
there are certain forms of law ,
whereby a creditor endeavors to make good his payment ,
either by affecting the person of his debtor ,
or by securing the subjects belonging to him from alienation ,
or by carrying the property of these subjects to himself .
They are either real or personal .
2 .
Real diligence is that which is proper to heritable or real rights ,.
and of this kind there are two sorts :
1 .
Inhibitions .
2 .
Adjudication ,
which the law has substituted in the place of apprising .
3 .
Personal diligence is that by which the person of the debtor may be secured ,
or his personal estate affected .
Ersk .
Pr .
L .
Scotl .
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2 ,
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11 ,
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1 .
DILIGENCE ,
contracts .
The doing things in proper time .
2 .
It may be divided into three degrees ,
namely :
ordinary diligence ,
extraordinary diligence ,
and slight diligence .
It is the reverse of negligence . (
q .
v .)
Under that article is shown what degree of negligence ,
or want of diligence ,
will make a party to a contract responsible to the other .
Vide Story ,
Bailm .
Index h .
t .;
Ayl .
Pand .
113 1 Miles ,
Rep .
40 .
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