Patience vs Diligence - What's the difference?
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The quality of being patient.
Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).
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:
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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 a proper noun patience
is .As a noun diligence is
conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something.patience
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*garden patience ----diligence
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(wikipedia diligence)Noun
(en noun)- Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.