diligence
/ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒəns/ nom B1En français : diligence
- Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
- The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
- Carefulness, in particular, the necessary care appropriate to a particular task or responsibility.
- A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.
- The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
Pluriel diligences
Dans la bibliothèque
“Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B’s before very long.
It would be impossible to make use of a diligence, equally so to engage post-horses; to travel either way a passport was necessary.
He commended her exceptional diligence, noting that true cartography requires an unyielding commitment to reality over mere artistic elegance.
The journals maintained by Lewis and Clark remain a quintessential compendium of taxonomic diligence and cartographic precision.
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