diligent (c.1270)

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diligent (c.1270)

[ FEW: 3,79b diligens; Gdf: ; GdfC: 9,384a diligent; TL: 2,1930 diligent; DEAF: ; DMF:  diligent; TLF:  diligent; OED:  diligent adj., adv.; MED:  diligent adj.; DMLBS: ]
diligant;  deligent  

a.

1diligent, hard-working
( MS: s.xiv2/3 )  soit le dit chariour [...] jurré et chargé q’il soit diligent et penible  477
diligent, attentive
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (St Richard) diligent e veilliant esteit  335
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xivex )  Vous [prie] de fyn coer q’entour mon dit enfant [...] veullez estre diligant et appernant  362
( 1406 )  par my la diligent pursuyte [... ]  iii 584
2insistent
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  par diligentes impetraciouns ad il esté autrefoiz demaundé  i 209
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  un fort enortement moelt diligent d’ascuns de mes bons amys  240
( 1358-59 )  a la grande et diligente requeste et instance de nostre [...] soere Dame [...]  i 835
tresdiligent 
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