diligence

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdɪlɪdʒəns/

Noun

diligence (plural diligences)

1. conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something
2. (religion) One of the seven heavenly virtues, opposite the vice of sloth.
3. A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume 1, Chapter V:

     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:

     Being in a civilised country of stage-coaches, I determined to sell my lady friend and be off by the diligence that afternoon.

Synonyms

• worksomeness

Translations

conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something

• Bulgarian: старание (bg) (staranie) n, прилежание (bg) (priležanie) n
• Dutch: toewijding (nl) f, vasthoudendheid (nl) f
• French: diligence (fr) f
• German: Fleiß (de) m
• Japanese: 精励 (せいれい, seirei)

• Luxembourgish: Fläiss (lb) m
• Romanian: sârguință (ro) f, diligență (ro) f
• Russian: усердие (ru) (userdije) n, старательность (ru) (staratelʹnostʹ) f
• Spanish: esmero (es) m, diligencia (es) f
• Welsh: diwydrwydd (cy) m

(religion) One of the seven contrary virtues, opposite the vice of sloth

• Bulgarian: трудолюбие (bg) (trudoljubie) n
• Dutch: moed (nl) f, sterkte (nl) f, vasthoudendheid (nl) f, standvastigheid (nl) f
• Japanese: 精励 (せいれい, seirei)

• Romanian: hărnicie (ro) f
• Russian: трудолюбие (ru) (trudoljubiye)

public stage-coach

• Bulgarian: дилижанс (bg) (diližans) m
• French: diligence (fr) f

• Romanian: diligență (ro) f, poștalion (ro) n
• Russian: дилижанс (ru) (diližans) m

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Translations to be checked

• Czech: píle (cs) f
• German: Sorgfalt (de) f

• Hungarian: szorgalom (1), delizsánsz (3)
• Serbian: revnost, marljivost, priležnost
• Spanish: esmero (es) m

Derived terms

• due diligence

Anagrams

• ceilinged

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French

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Etymology

diligence

Borrowed from Latin diligentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /di.li.ʒɑ̃s/

Noun

diligence f

1. diligence, conscientiousness
2. haste
3. stage-coach, diligence