Noun: diligency
| Singular | diligency |
| Plural | diligencies |
Sample Sentences
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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 [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:]
Nouns inflected like diligency
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin dīligentia. See: Latin Nouns '
dīligentia'.