noun a four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in france.
2. diligence ·noun the quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention;
the opposite of negligence.
3. diligence ·noun interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.
4. diligence ·noun process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.