Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of diligence; slothfulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Lack of diligence.
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- noun obsolete Lack of
diligence .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If he have brains a-plenty he will get on, for he must be up and doing -- the penalty of indiligence is famine.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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Compared with the action of this destructive solvent, that of all other disintegrating agencies concerned in our decivilization is as the languorous indiligence of rosewater to the mordant fury of nitric acid.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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Were it not a dishonour to a mighty prince, to have the majesty of his embassage spoiled by a careless ambassador? and is it not as great an indignity, that an excellent conceit and capacity, by the indiligence of an idle tongue, should be disgraced?
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605
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