diligentlyadv.
/ˈdɪlɪdʒəntli/ In a diligent manner; with diligence.† b. Attentively, carefully, heedfully. Obsolete.
a. With steady application; assiduously, industriously; not idly or lazily; †with dispatch.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adverb] > with studious care or diligently
yernlyc725
needlyeOE
yerneOE
getenlya1200
diligently1340
studiouslya1382
assiduallya1400
ithandlya1400
throngc1400
diligent1479
abidingly1530
industriously1572
sedulously1594
applyingly1624
assiduously1627
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adverb] > with studious care or diligently > in service
diligentlyc1540
officiously1604
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 208 Huo þet zecþ diligentliche.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Chron. xix. 11 Takith coumfort and doith diligently, and the Lord schal ben with ȝou in goodis.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 64v If he be pouer to laboure dylygentely.
1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. lx The Iewes studied the scripture ye diligenterly.
c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne C ij b They..serue god the holy dayes..more dylygentlyer, than to do theyr worke.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 822 That all thinges..shoulde be spedily and diligently done.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 6 Study to doe thy owne dutie diligently.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 207. ⁋8 When we have diligently laboured for any purpose.
1870 R. Anderson Hist. Missions Amer. Board III. iv. 53 Applying himself diligently..to natural and theological science.
1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 70 Columba laboured diligently among the Picts.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adverb]
welleOE
carefullya1000
wiselyc1000
redelya1250
cherelya1375
tentivelya1375
viselyc1380
curiouslya1382
namelya1382
smartlya1400
tentily?a1400
dearlyc1400
diligentlyc1400
preciously?a1425
listly?a1513
charely1545
heedely1548
accurately1549
respectively1556
heedfully1561
howfully1565
charily1577
heedily1577
charya1593
solicitously1618
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §17. 27 Espie diligently whan this..sterre passeth any-thing the sowth westward.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 72/1 Beholdyng hym dylygently in the clere lyght.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 139 Marking diligentlye that the Center of the second Circle, be in the line of sighte.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 87 It must be diligently distinguished from an Imposthume.
1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. v. 226 It hath not yet been diligently and thorowly determined.
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