diligence

English

Plate 1 of classical virtues: Diligence. She is holding a whip and spurs, signifying a drive to steadfastly move forward with one's means.

Etymology

Borrowed from French diligence.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪlɪdʒəns/
Hyphenation: di‧li‧gence
The stage-coach sense may be pronounced as in French.

Noun

diligence (countable and uncountable, plural diligences)

Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
Carefulness.
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due diligence
(historical) A public stage-coach.
- 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744:
  Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.
- 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, OCLC 5979975:
  Being in a civilised country of stage-coaches, I determined to sell my lady friend and be off by the diligence that afternoon.
(Scotland, law) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

Synonyms

worksomeness (rare)

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Translations

carefulness

Danish: omhu
Finnish: huolellisuus (fi)
German: Sorgfalt (de)
Latvian: gādīgums m
Russian: рачительность (ru) (račitelʹnostʹ)

qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, perseverance

Arabic: اِجْتِهَاد‎ (ar) m (ijtihād)
Belarusian: стара́ннасць f (staránnascʹ), руплі́васць f (ruplívascʹ), дба́йнасць f (dbájnascʹ), гарлі́васць f (harlívascʹ), пі́льнасць f (pílʹnascʹ), працаві́тасць f (pracavítascʹ)
Bulgarian: стара́ние (bg) n (staránie), прилежа́ние (bg) n (priležánie), усъ́рдие (bg) n (usǎ́rdie)
Burmese: လုံ့လ (my) (lum.la.)
Catalan: diligència (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 勤奮／勤奋 (zh) (qínfèn), 用功 (zh) (yònggōng)
Czech: píle (cs) f, pracovitost f
Dutch: toewijding (nl) f, vasthoudendheid (nl) f
Finnish: ahkeruus (fi)
French: diligence (fr) f
Galician: dilixencia f
German: Fleiß (de) m, Eifer (de) m
Greek: προκοπή (el) f (prokopí)
Hindi: अध्यवसाय (hi) m (adhyavsāy), परिश्रम (hi) m (pariśram)
Hungarian: szorgalom (hu)
Japanese: 精励 (ja) (せいれい, seirei), 勤勉 (ja) (きんべん, kinben)
Khmer: បរក្រម (km) (bɑkrɑɑm), ព្យាយាម (km) (pyiəyiəm)
Korean: 근면 (ko) (geunmyeon), 열심 (ko) (yeolsim)
Kyrgyz: эмгекчилдик (emgekçildik)
Lao: ພິຣິຍະ (phi ri nya)
Latvian: centība f
Lithuanian: darbštumas m
Luxembourgish: Fläiss m
Macedonian: трудољубивост f (trudoljubivost), усрдност f (usrdnost)
Norwegian: flid m
Bokmål: iherdighet m or f
Polish: pilność (pl) f, pracowitość (pl) f
Portuguese: diligência (pt) f
Romanian: sârguință (ro) f, diligență (ro) f
Russian: усе́рдие (ru) n (usérdije), стара́тельность (ru) f (starátelʹnostʹ), прилежа́ние (ru) n (priležánije), стара́ние (ru) n (staránije), трудолю́бие (ru) n (trudoljúbije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ма̀рљиво̄ст f

Roman: màrljivōst (sh) f
Slovak: pracovitosť f
Slovene: marljivost f
Spanish: diligencia (es) f, esmero (es) m
Swedish: ihärdighet (sv) c, flit (sv) c
Thai: วิริยะ (th), ความขยัน (th)
Turkish: çalışkanlık (tr), hamaratlık (tr), özen (tr), sebat (tr)
Ukrainian: стара́нність f (staránnistʹ), рете́льність f (retélʹnistʹ), дбайли́вість f (dbajlývistʹ), пи́льність f (pýlʹnistʹ), зага́рливість f (zahárlyvistʹ), працьови́тість (uk) f (pracʹovýtistʹ), працелю́бність (uk) f (praceljúbnistʹ)
Vietnamese: sự siêng năng (vi)
Welsh: diwydrwydd m

public stage-coach

Bulgarian: дилижа́нс m (diližáns)
Catalan: diligència (ca) f
Dutch: diligence (nl) f, postkoets (nl) f
Finnish: diligenssi (fi)
French: diligence (fr) f
Latvian: diližanss m
Norwegian: diligence m
Polish: dyliżans (pl) m
Portuguese: diligência (pt) f
Romanian: diligență (ro) f, poștalion (ro) n
Russian: дилижа́нс (ru) m (diližáns)

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Translations to be checked

Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} revnost (sh), ^{(please verify)} marljivost (sh), ^{(please verify)} priležnost
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} esmero (es) m

Anagrams

ceilinged

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French diligence.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌdi.liˈʒɑns/, /ˌdi.liˈʒɑn.sə/
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Hyphenation: di‧li‧gen‧ce

Noun

diligence f (plural diligences)

(historical) A diligence, a stage-coach.
Synonym: postkoets

French

Etymology

diligence

Borrowed from Latin diligentia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /di.li.ʒɑ̃s/
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Audio (Switzerland) (file)

Noun

diligence f (countable and uncountable, plural diligences)

(uncountable) diligence, conscientiousness
(uncountable) haste
(countable) stage-coach, diligence

Derived terms

faire diligence

Related terms

diligent

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→ Dutch: diligence
→ English: diligence

diligence

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