diligence

noun5

1. •
   Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
2. •
   The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
3. •
   Carefulness, in particular, the necessary care appropriate to a particular task or responsibility.
4. •
   (historical) A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.

   • Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped. — 1816
5. •
   The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.