Diligence1. (n.) Carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.
2. (n.) Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.
3. (n.) Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
4. (n.) A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.
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