strenuity

English

Etymology

strenu(ous) +‎ -ity, from Latin strenuitas.

Noun

strenuity (uncountable)

1. (archaic) strenuousness; activity
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book XV”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     sword and fire should force
     Both ships and lives of all the Greeks.
     And thus, unlike affects Bred like strenuity in both.

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “strenuity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.