Diligence vs Meticulousness - What's the difference?
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conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something
A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)
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(legal, Scotland) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
The state or characteristic of being meticulous.
Diligence is a related term of meticulousness.
As nouns the difference between diligence and meticulousness
is that diligence is conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something while meticulousness is the state or characteristic of being meticulous.diligence
English
(wikipedia diligence)Noun
(en noun)- Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.