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laboriousness|ləˈbɔərɪəsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
Laborious character or condition; assiduity in work; toilsomeness.
1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I.) 89 That great laboriousnesse they so much frame to themselves. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. 38 To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 135 The exceeding Laboriousness of my Work. 1818Hallam Middle Ages (1853) II. 62 Masdeu, in learning and laboriousness, the first Spanish antiquary. 1861Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 32 Leaf and stem disintertwined itself With infinite laboriousness. |