Meticulous vs Diligence - What's the difference?
meticulous | diligence |
(archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.
Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
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, passage=The meticulous care with which the operation in Sicily was planned has paid dividends. Our casualties in men, in ships and materiel have been low—in fact, far below our estimate.}}
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.)
* 1818 , , Volume 1, Chapter V:
* {{quote-book
, year=1879
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, passage=Being in a civilised country of stage-coaches, I determined to sell my lady friend and be off by the diligence that afternoon.}}
(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 an adjective meticulous
is (archaic) timid, fearful, overly cautious.As a noun diligence is
conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something.meticulous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* careful, precise, painstaking, rigorous, scrupulous * See alsoAntonyms
* sloppy, careless, slapdashDerived terms
* meticulosity, meticulousnessExternal links
* *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.