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diligently

UK/ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒ(ə)ntli/US/ˈdɪləd͡ʒən(t)li/
adverbC2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,547 of 15,258neutral

Diligently means with steady and careful effort. Work diligently, diligently recorded, applied himself diligently.

It praises persistence rather than brilliance, and it is what school reports say about the child who tried. In law, acting diligently means doing what a careful person would do without undue delay.

Definitions of diligently

  1. 1adverbdiligentlyWith steady and careful effort.C2

    “She diligently checked every figure in the report before sending it.”

diligently is a manner.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *leǵ-

  2. Latin

    dīligēns — careful, attentive, diligent

  3. Old French

    diligent

  4. Middle English

    diligent

  5. English

    diligent

  6. English, today

    diligently

Built from

  • dīligō · Latin — to love, esteem much (literally “to choose, select”)
  • dis- · Latin — apart
  • legō · Latin — to choose

From diligent + -ly. diligent comes from Middle English diligent, from Old French diligent, from Latin dīligēns (“careful, attentive, diligent”), present participle of dīligō (“to love, esteem much”) literally “to choose, select”, from dī-, dis- (“apart”) + legō (“to choose”); see elect and select.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

diligently in the wild

  • Sanson's Peak was named in 1948 for Norman Bethune Sanson who diligently attended the observatory recording equipment atop Sulphur Mountain for nearly 30 years.

    Sulphur Mountain (Alberta)

  • Epstein diligently studied the works of Isaac Baer Levinsohn, Nachman Krochmal, and S.

    Abraham Epstein

  • Village women can often be found in alleyways, chatting while they diligently work through hundreds of strings and buttons in the creation of traditional Djellaba.

    Bhalil

  • Nemesius mentions a work of his On Reincarnation,, and Origen is said to have diligently studied the works of Cronius.

    Cronius the Pythagorean

  • The Yeshiva utilizes a logical and rhetorical method that makes precision-Talmudic learning accessible to anyone who follows it diligently.

    Bircas HaTorah

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the legō family

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