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diligencia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
diligencia.
Principal English Translation: 

investigation, action taken by a judicial official in a criminal or civil case
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

inin deliJensias in ipalehuilocatzin mochihuas = these papers [which will be his support] (Azcapotzalco, 1738)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 17, 106–107, 108–109.