Diligence vs Steadfastness - What's the difference?
diligence | steadfastness |
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.
As nouns the difference between diligence and steadfastness
is that diligence is conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something while steadfastness is loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty.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.
