Show diligence our word diligence Is from the latin diligencia it means the quality of being diligent interested and persevering application devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what Is undertaken assiduous industry I 1 careful attention industry has the w wider ider sense of 0 the two words implying an habitual devotion to labor for sonne some valuable end as knowledge or property diligence denotes earnest application to some specific object or pu pursuit alt which more or less directly has a strong hold on ones interest or feelings |