diligency

English

Etymology

From Latin dīligentia.

Noun

diligency (usually uncountable, plural diligencies)

1. (obsolete or nonstandard) diligence; carefulness
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

     A little generous prudence , a little forbearance of one another , and some grain of charity might win all these diligencies to join and unite into one general and brotherly search after truth

References

• “diligency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• diglycine