DILIGENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diligently mean? 

• DILIGENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb DILIGENTLY has 1 sense:

1. with diligence; in a diligent manner

  Familiarity information: DILIGENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DILIGENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With diligence; in a diligent manner

Context example:

we may diligently observe the Lord's supper on the first day of the week, diligently preach the gospel, or minister to the saint

Pertainym:

diligent (characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks)

 Context examples 

You have been reading the papers diligently of late, have you not?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As long as The Spread Eagle paid her a dollar a column for her 'rubbish', as she called it, Jo felt herself a woman of means, and spun her little romances diligently.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The beast and I were brought close together, and by our countenances diligently compared both by master and servant, who thereupon repeated several times the word Yahoo.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This, at the time I write, has been proved, I believe, to be the case; but, as it would have been flat blasphemy against the system to have hinted such a doubt then, I looked out for the penitence as diligently as I could.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She worked very diligently under her aunt's directions, but her diligence and her silence concealed a very absent, anxious mind; and about noon she made her escape with her work to the East room, that she might have no concern in another, and, as she deemed it, most unnecessary rehearsal of the first act, which Henry Crawford was just proposing, desirous at once of having her time to herself, and of avoiding the sight of Mr. Rushworth.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Having thus, in obedience to your majesty’s commands, diligently searched all his pockets, we observed a girdle about his waist made of the hide of some prodigious animal, from which, on the left side, hung a sword of the length of five men; and on the right, a bag or pouch divided into two cells, each cell capable of holding three of your majesty’s subjects.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

As few brothers are complimented by having their letters carried about in their sister's pockets, read and reread diligently, cried over when short, kissed when long, and treasured carefully, we will not hint that Amy did any of these fond and foolish things.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He took up all my clothes in his pastern, one piece after another, and examined them diligently; he then stroked my body very gently, and looked round me several times; after which, he said, it was plain I must be a perfect Yahoo; but that I differed very much from the rest of my species in the softness, whiteness, and smoothness of my skin; my want of hair in several parts of my body; the shape and shortness of my claws behind and before; and my affectation of walking continually on my two hinder feet.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Once upon a time, there were four girls, who had enough to eat and drink and wear, a good many comforts and pleasures, kind friends and parents who loved them dearly, and yet they were not contented. (Here the listeners stole sly looks at one another, and began to sew diligently.) These girls were anxious to be good and made many excellent resolutions, but they did not keep them very well, and were constantly saying, 'If only we had this,' or 'If we could only do that,' quite forgetting how much they already had, and how many things they actually could do.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)