diligence

diligence is a Noun

Definition:

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

[2] Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service. That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence. Shak.

[3] Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings. To do one`s diligence, give diligence, use diligence, to exert one`s self; to make interested and earnest endeavor. And each of them doth all his diligence To do unto the festé reverence. Chaucer.