deligent

== English == === Adjective === deligent (comparative more deligent, superlative most deligent) Archaic spelling of diligent. === Anagrams === deleting == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Form of the verb dēligō (“pick off”). ==== Verb ==== dēligent third-person plural future active indicative of dēligō === Etymology 2 === Form of the verb dēligō (“bind”). ==== Verb ==== dēligent third-person plural present active subjunctive of dēligō == Scots == === Adjective === deligent alternative spelling of diligent after 1513, William Dunbar, "The Maner of Passing to Confessioun", in Of Luve Erdly and Divine, in an 1834 collection edited by David Laing, The poems of William Dunbar, now first collected. With notes, and a memoir of his life. Volume first, page 225: Sen sic ane mychty king and lorde as he / To fast and pray was so obedient, / We synfull folk sulde be more deligent. I reid the, man, of thi transgressioun / With all thi hert that thou be penitent. 1561 August, Frances Boitwall, letter, quoted in 1834, Mark Napier, Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston: His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms, page 76: 1573-1589, Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh: a.d. 1573-1589 (published 1875), page 137: