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arduous, a.|ˈɑːdjuːəs|
Also 6 harduos.
[f. L. ardu-us high, steep, difficult + -ous.]
1. Lofty, high, steep, difficult to climb; also fig.
1709Pope Ess. Crit. 95 Those arduous paths they trod. 1713Steele Guard. No. 20 ⁋1 To forgive is the most arduous pitch human nature can arrive at. 1831Macaulay Boswell, Ess. (1854) I. 174/2 Knowledge at which Sir I. Newton arrived through arduous and circuitous paths.
2. Hard to accomplish or achieve; requiring strong effort; difficult, laborious, severe.
1538Starkey England 27 A mater..of grete dyffyculty and harduos. 1718Pope Iliad xiv. 523 An arduous battle rose around the dead. 1775Harris Philos. Arrangem. (1841) 259 A task too arduous for unassisted philosophy. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 206 Such an enterprise would be in the highest degree arduous and hazardous.
3. By transference to the activity required for the task: Strenuous, energetic, laborious.
1753[See arduously]. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §22. 160 Less than two good ones [guides]..an arduous climber ought not to have. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. VI. lxxiii. 376 Montrose made arduous efforts to reconstruct his army. |