Meanings
noundiligency (usually uncountable, plural diligencies)
plural diligencies
- nonstandardobsoleteuncountableusuallydiligence; carefulness
A little generous prudence , a little forbearance of one another , and some grain of charity might win all these diligencies to join and unite into one general and brotherly search after truth
1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC
Origin
- Latindīligentia
- Englishdiligency
From Latin dīligentia.
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