toilsome
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[edit]toilsome (comparative more toilsome, superlative most toilsome)
- Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- ‘And you, Sir knight,’ / (Said she) ‘that taken have this toylesome paine / For wretched woman […]!’
- 1940 July, “Notes and News: Timetables in South Africa”, in Railway Magazine, page 422:
- The whole of the interior of South Africa is, of course, one vast plateau at a considerable elevation, and all the main lines coming up from the coast have some toilsome climbing.