Bible Dictionaries
Diligence

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

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

(2):

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

(3):

(n.) A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

(4):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Diligence'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/diligence.html. 1828.