diligence englanniksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-englanti)

conscientiousness or determination or perseverance when doing something
A public stage-coach. (19th century, now used only in reference to France or other European countries including Great Britain.)
(legal, Scotland) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.
Being in a civilised country of stage-coaches, I determined to sell my lady friend and be off by the diligence that afternoon.

Monikko