Synonyms:
diligence
Meaning: conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
Usage examples
"Oh, I will use the utmost diligence.
Grope he did, however, with unexampled diligence.
Wherefore Antiochus thought it but just to requite the Jews' diligence and zeal in his service.
I therefore kept my three duns working with great diligence, pounding down ice around the central cask, and stirring the acid in the others.
Though she worked with zealous diligence, she had an eye to the movements in the street outside, for it was shopping-hour, and there were many observations to be made.
In this pope, says he, there was a singular capacity and judgement: admirable prudence; a wonderful talent of persuasion; and in all momentous enterprizes a diligence and dexterity incredible.
He told her of the quest which had led him there, and she admired all the patience and diligence he had shown in finding out her existence. When he asked her to marry him at once, she readily consented.
While Ali Baba was burying the gold, his wife, to show her exactness and diligence to her sister-in-law, carried the measure back again, but without taking notice that a piece of gold had stuck to the bottom.
But this was far from being the case, and though by unwearied diligence they gained even the top of the room, their situation was just the same; they saw nothing of the dancers but the high feathers of some of the ladies.
For he gave all diligence, as he does to this day, to procure relics of the blessed Apostles and martyrs of Christ from all parts, and to raise altars in their honour in separate side-chapels built for the purpose within the walls of the same church.