strenuous
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From Latin strenuus (“quick”).
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strenuous (comparative more strenuous, superlative most strenuous)
- Urgent, ardent, zealous.
- Requiring great exertion.
- 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
- We can achieve this god‐likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
- 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
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requiring great exertion
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- strenuous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- strenuous in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- strenuous at OneLook Dictionary Search
