Diligence: alternatives and connections

Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.

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The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.

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The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness.

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The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.

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The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

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An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort…

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That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure…

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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

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Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.

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Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.

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The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness;…

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