Definition 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.