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diligently, adv.|ˈdɪlɪdʒəntlɪ|
[f. diligent a. + -ly2.]
In a diligent manner; with diligence. a. With steady application; assiduously, industriously; not idly or lazily; † with dispatch.
1340Ayenb. 208 Huo þet zecþ diligentliche. 1382Wyclif 2 Chron. xix. 11 Takith coumfort and doith diligently, and the Lord schal ben with ȝou in goodis. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 128 If he be pouer to laboure dylygentely. 1530Tindale Answ. to More i. xxvi. Wks. (1573) 287/2 The Jewes studyed the scripture the deligenterly. c1540Boorde The boke for to Lerne C ij b, They..serue god the holy dayes..more dylygentlyer, than to do theyr worke. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 822 That all thinges..shoulde be spedily and diligently done. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 6 Study to doe thy owne dutie diligently. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 207 ⁋8 When we have diligently laboured for any purpose. 1870Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. III. iv. 53 Applying himself diligently..to natural and theological science. 1894J. T. Fowler Adamnan Introd. 70 Columba laboured diligently among the Picts.
†b. Attentively, carefully, heedfully. Obs.
c1391Chaucer Astrol. ii. §17 Espie diligently whan this..sterre passeth any-thing the sowth westward. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 72/1 Beholdyng hym dylygently in the clere lyght. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 139 Marking diligentlye that the Center of the second Circle, be in the line of sighte. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 87 It must be diligently distinguished from an Imposthume. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. v. 226 It hath not yet been diligently and thorowly determined. |