Meaning Of Diligence

n.

The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

n.

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

n.

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

n.

A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.