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
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diligent (c.1270)