Diligence

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

II. Diligence ·noun The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention;

— the opposite of negligence.

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

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