labouredlaboredadj.

Brit.

/ˈleɪbəd/, U.S.

/ˈleɪbərd/

Forms: see labour v. and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: labour v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < labour v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier well-laboured adj.

1. Cultivated, farmed, tilled, ploughed. Formerly also: (of a mine) †worked (obsolete). Cf. labour v. 1b. Now somewhat archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cultivated

wroughtOE

subact?1440

laboured1470

tilled1546

well-cultured1555

well-laboured1571

husbanded1578

toiled1578

well-husbanded1581

cultive1611

improved1617

cultivated1622

well-cultivated1650

manured1746

well-farmed1770

reduced1794

farmed1800

tillaged1854

tilthed1866

tame1887

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > of mine: worked

laboured1842

1470 in J. Fullarton Rec. Burgh Prestwick (1834) 8 The commoun landis of the said burghe that is labourit lande.

1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon cii. sig. Niv ^v There is an herbe called small oxce tongue & groweth in the gardyns and on other laboured feldes.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. 58 Whereon he earst had taught his flocks to feede, And laboured lands to yield the timely eare.

c1641–54 J. Gordon in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1907) II. 559 All the laboured ground lyeth either upon the seasyd or upon..sum river.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 83 Root up wild Olives from thy labour'd Lands.

1705 W. Forbes Treat. Church-lands & Tithes ii. viii. 352 Prescription of a right to the Tithes of the laboured Ground.

1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth i. 40 What Lengths of labour'd Lands? what loaded Seas? Loaded by man, for Pleasure, Wealth, or War.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 123 Or labour'd mines undrainable of ore.

1853 T. Parker Ten Serm. Relig. ii. 40 The Italian has his sunnier sky, his laboured land, which teems with the cultural luxuriance of three thousand years.

1888 Birmingham Daily Post 13 July 7/2 The raising, with common sand, of plants generally cultivated in the best manured and most laboured soil.

1935 G. Tillotson in Ess. Crit. & Res. (1942) ix. 110 Shenstone..[writes] of his exquisitely laboured garden as ‘my hole’.

1997 R. Bononno tr. P. Levy Collective Intelligence xi. 176 The labored field, sown with seed, echoes the coming harvest through the play of difference.

†2. Worn out by use or work. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > worn out

perusedc1475

withered1488

laboured1535

outworn1597

worn-out1612

effete1662

frazzled1872

jacked-up1874

crocky1906

bummed1907

rim-racked1916

shot1933

beaten-up1941

beat-up1946

clapped1946

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xiii. 21 The edges of the plow~shares, and mattockes, & forckes, and axes were laboured, and the poyntes blont.

1583 Edinb. Test. XII. 379b Fyve auld lauborit naigis price of the pece viij merkis.

a. Produced or accomplished with labour; performed with great effort or care; requiring or resulting from much time or hard work. Formerly also spec.: (of metal) †refined (obsolete). Also with at.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > accomplished with much labour

busy1448

laboured1566

elaborate1592

pumped1731

labour-intensive1928

1566 T. Nuce in J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon Upon the same sig. Cii^v Hys request was suche: How that, to paynfull laboured stuffe My mynd I wolde annex: And do but as his watched worke, Whych he doth here contex Deserues.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles vii. 15 In framing an Artist, art hath thus decreed, To make some good, but others to exceed, And you are her labourd scholler.

a1658 J. Cleveland Elegy on Ben Jonson in J. Cleaveland Revived: Poems (1659) 45 The marbled Glory of thy labour'd Rhime Shall live beyond the Calendar of time.

1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 17 Labour'd Columns in long Order plac'd.

1740 C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid II. x. 477 High in my Dome, are Silver Talents roll'd With Piles of Labour'd and Unlabour'd Gold.

1759 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful (ed. 2) v. §5. 328 There is not perhaps in the whole Eneid a more grand and laboured passage, than the description of Vulcan's cavern in Etna.

1834 J. S. H. Pardoe Speculation III. xvi. 233 They are dazzled by the flashing of the laboured metal whose polish serves to conceal its alloy, while the unworked ore is overlooked or disregarded.

1876 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 32 And lily-coloured clothes provide Your spouse not laboured-at nor spun.

1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 72 Laboured mounds, that a foot or a wanton stick may subvert.

1919 J. Thurber Let. 24 Sept. (2002) 34 Air castles must be torn down, those mushrooms of a minute's dream, and a slow and labored foundation begun on the old site.

1960 W. Conton African i. 7 I was left to show the visitor to a seat, and to assure him, in a laboured admixture of English, Hausa, and gesturing, that the ladies he wished to see were in.

1995 This Mag. July 3/3 We are thrilled to unveil This Magazine's completely original redesign. It is the much laboured brainchild of our talented new Art Director.

b. depreciative. Esp. of a literary work or writing style: excessively elaborate, affected, or punctilious; not spontaneous or fluent; overwrought, overdone; tediously contrived.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking spontaneity

laboured1613

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > laboured or pedantic

tricked1549

pedantical1592

laboured1613

pedantic1631

laborious1657

stiff1664

long-nebbed1818

stiltified1820

stiltish1824

overwrought1839

uncolloquial1840

stilty1845

Ollendorffian1848

literose1859

stilted1874

Hisperic1904

1613 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Epist. c, in tr. Seneca Wks. (1614) 422 He confesseth openly, and letteth vs see that it is not an affected and laboured stile, but such a one as a man may know it was Fabianus writing.

1688 Animadversions upon Reflections Dr. B's Trav. 9 The Ancient Authors, in whose simplicity and seeming carelessness, there is a beauty that far exceeds all the painting of a laboured Stile.

1719 A. Philips in Free-thinker 16 Jan. (No. 86) 2 How flat and insipid are the laboured Writings of some Men of Skill, who scarce ever feel the Language of the Heart!

1757 C. Lennox tr. L. A. de La Beaumelle Mem. for Hist. Madame Maintenon I. ii. iv. 114 Mademoiselle d'Aubigné loved his thoughts, but hated the laboured style in which they were conveyed.

1774 A. Gerard Ess. Genius i. iii. 56 The laboured delineations of a poetaster, who would supply the want of genuine fancy by the industry of observation.

1826 J. Foster Let. in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) II. 84 Other writing of a laboured and tedious kind.

1845 Southern Literary Messenger Sept. 523/1 A labored effort to get away from the New Testament endorsement of the principle [of slavery], so far as permissibility is concerned.

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 215 A labored investigation of evidence.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 15 The dialogue is generally weak and laboured.

1908 V. Bell Let. 11 Aug. in Sel. Lett. (1993) ii. 67 His humour is laboured and rather like an elephant in a china shop and I can't imagine it very well-mated to your wit.

1934 L. Charteris Boodle vii. 154 The message contained two lines in laboured script.

1977 L. J. Crabb Effective Biblical Counseling viii. 139 Right behavior without right thinking produces a labored, pressured, effortful brand of Christian obedience.

1999 Time Out N.Y. 10 June 137/1 Ness looks ridiculous, so copious are his tattoos, so labored is his quiff.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 May 21/3 On the whole, Lighthousekeeping's allusiveness is playful, if a bit laboured.

c. Of a physical action: performed with great effort or difficulty; heavy. Also of a person or animal: heavy in movement.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > performed with great physical effort

laboured1772

1772 J. M. Adair Comm. Princ. & Pract. Physic v. vii. 420 After the second dose, his face highly flushed, his breathing more laboured, his delirium outrageous.

1828 J. F. Cooper Notions Amer. (1835) I. 45 La Fayette moved slowly through the multitude, walking with a little difficulty from a personal infirmity... Each seemed to watch his laboured footstep, no one advanced to greet him.

1873 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 4) 240 A long and labored inspiration then takes place, giving rise to a crowing sound evidently due to spasm of the glottis.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 156 The laboured beat of the engines.

1930 J. W. Campbell in Amazing Stories Q. Fall 505/1 There were six of them, tall men, about seven feet high, and they walked with the rather labored step of a Venerean.

1949 P. G. Wodehouse Mating Season xxiv. 209 Dobbs..was more laboured in his movements and to an eye like mine, trained in the watching of point-to-point races, had all the look of an also-ran.

1980 D. Millman Peaceful Warrior (1984) ii. v. 148 My breathing was labored, and I had no energy left.

2005 J. Connor Pointless (2006) vii. 137 The wind sprints became laboured jogs after a couple of laps.

†4. Employed or used in labour, esp. tiring manual labour; hard-worked. Also with distinguishing word; see also over-laboured adj. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [adjective] > toiling or working hard

laboured1607

Stakhanovite1936

Stakhanovist1938

1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 395 b/2 A grete tempeste..in which they were..sore for-laboured.]

1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 4 My father by his painfull trade, Whose laboured Anuile only was his fee.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 232 Your King, whose labour'd spirits Fore-wearied in this action of swift speede.

1637 J. Milton Comus 11 What time the labour'd Oxe In his loose traces from the furrow came.

1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise i. i. 3 Turn'd out, like Labour'd Oxen, after Harvest.

1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epode ii, in tr. Horace Odes II. 275 See his labour'd Oxen bow Their languid Necks, and drag th' inverted Plow.

1797 T. Hull Moral Tales II. 25 No monarch of the feather'd brood Was heard aloud to crow, Nor laboured ox the vocal air Awaken with his low.

1816 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 33 74 The property tax on the tenant, the tax on laboured horses, and some other payments which bear principally on agriculture.

1820 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 5 Sept. (1941) II. 244 Two stout hard-laboured peasants.

Derivatives

ˈlabouredly adv.

ΚΠ

1735 S. Wright Postscript to Serm. Script. & Trad. 24 This subject of charity to some that are under the Roman yoke, hath been most labouredly considered.

1836 Dublin Jrnl. Med. & Chem. Sci. 8 114 Heart pulsates regularly but slowly and labouredly; pulse a degree stronger.

1992 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Oct. c22/1 Sometimes these images coalesce to form astonishingly vivid pictures in the reader's mind. At other times, they seem laboredly poetic.

ˈlabouredness n.

ΚΠ

1857 R. Redgrave in Inventory Pictures, Drawings, Etchings Cromwell Gardens, South Kensington 8 Compared with the meagre minuteness, the petty prettiness, and feeble labouredness of Dow.

1930 J. W. Mackail Largeness in Lit. 6 Largeness is..the opposite..of thinness, of tightness, of labouredness.

1998 M. Montgomery Concerning Intellect. Philandering xv. 157 Perhaps the labor and laboredness is to a good end.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	laboured
释义	labouredlaboredadj. Brit. /ˈleɪbəd/, U.S. /ˈleɪbərd/ Forms: see labour v. and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: labour v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < labour v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier well-laboured adj. 1. Cultivated, farmed, tilled, ploughed. Formerly also: (of a mine) †worked (obsolete). Cf. labour v. 1b. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cultivated wroughtOE subact?1440 laboured1470 tilled1546 well-cultured1555 well-laboured1571 husbanded1578 toiled1578 well-husbanded1581 cultive1611 improved1617 cultivated1622 well-cultivated1650 manured1746 well-farmed1770 reduced1794 farmed1800 tillaged1854 tilthed1866 tame1887 society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > of mine: worked laboured1842 1470 in J. Fullarton Rec. Burgh Prestwick (1834) 8 The commoun landis of the said burghe that is labourit lande. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon cii. sig. Niv ^v There is an herbe called small oxce tongue & groweth in the gardyns and on other laboured feldes. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. 58 Whereon he earst had taught his flocks to feede, And laboured lands to yield the timely eare. c1641–54 J. Gordon in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1907) II. 559 All the laboured ground lyeth either upon the seasyd or upon..sum river. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 83 Root up wild Olives from thy labour'd Lands. View more context for this quotation 1705 W. Forbes Treat. Church-lands & Tithes ii. viii. 352 Prescription of a right to the Tithes of the laboured Ground. 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth i. 40 What Lengths of labour'd Lands? what loaded Seas? Loaded by man, for Pleasure, Wealth, or War. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 123 Or labour'd mines undrainable of ore. 1853 T. Parker Ten Serm. Relig. ii. 40 The Italian has his sunnier sky, his laboured land, which teems with the cultural luxuriance of three thousand years. 1888 Birmingham Daily Post 13 July 7/2 The raising, with common sand, of plants generally cultivated in the best manured and most laboured soil. 1935 G. Tillotson in Ess. Crit. & Res. (1942) ix. 110 Shenstone..[writes] of his exquisitely laboured garden as ‘my hole’. 1997 R. Bononno tr. P. Levy Collective Intelligence xi. 176 The labored field, sown with seed, echoes the coming harvest through the play of difference. †2. Worn out by use or work. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > worn out perusedc1475 withered1488 laboured1535 outworn1597 worn-out1612 effete1662 frazzled1872 jacked-up1874 crocky1906 bummed1907 rim-racked1916 shot1933 beaten-up1941 beat-up1946 clapped1946 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xiii. 21 The edges of the plow~shares, and mattockes, & forckes, and axes were laboured, and the poyntes blont. 1583 Edinb. Test. XII. 379b Fyve auld lauborit naigis price of the pece viij merkis. 3. a. Produced or accomplished with labour; performed with great effort or care; requiring or resulting from much time or hard work. Formerly also spec.: (of metal) †refined (obsolete). Also with at. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > accomplished with much labour busy1448 laboured1566 elaborate1592 pumped1731 labour-intensive1928 1566 T. Nuce in J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon Upon the same sig. Cii^v Hys request was suche: How that, to paynfull laboured stuffe My mynd I wolde annex: And do but as his watched worke, Whych he doth here contex Deserues. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles vii. 15 In framing an Artist, art hath thus decreed, To make some good, but others to exceed, And you are her labourd scholler. a1658 J. Cleveland Elegy on Ben Jonson in J. Cleaveland Revived: Poems (1659) 45 The marbled Glory of thy labour'd Rhime Shall live beyond the Calendar of time. 1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 17 Labour'd Columns in long Order plac'd. 1740 C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid II. x. 477 High in my Dome, are Silver Talents roll'd With Piles of Labour'd and Unlabour'd Gold. 1759 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful (ed. 2) v. §5. 328 There is not perhaps in the whole Eneid a more grand and laboured passage, than the description of Vulcan's cavern in Etna. 1834 J. S. H. Pardoe Speculation III. xvi. 233 They are dazzled by the flashing of the laboured metal whose polish serves to conceal its alloy, while the unworked ore is overlooked or disregarded. 1876 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 32 And lily-coloured clothes provide Your spouse not laboured-at nor spun. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 72 Laboured mounds, that a foot or a wanton stick may subvert. 1919 J. Thurber Let. 24 Sept. (2002) 34 Air castles must be torn down, those mushrooms of a minute's dream, and a slow and labored foundation begun on the old site. 1960 W. Conton African i. 7 I was left to show the visitor to a seat, and to assure him, in a laboured admixture of English, Hausa, and gesturing, that the ladies he wished to see were in. 1995 This Mag. July 3/3 We are thrilled to unveil This Magazine's completely original redesign. It is the much laboured brainchild of our talented new Art Director. b. depreciative. Esp. of a literary work or writing style: excessively elaborate, affected, or punctilious; not spontaneous or fluent; overwrought, overdone; tediously contrived. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > lacking spontaneity laboured1613 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > laboured or pedantic tricked1549 pedantical1592 laboured1613 pedantic1631 laborious1657 stiff1664 long-nebbed1818 stiltified1820 stiltish1824 overwrought1839 uncolloquial1840 stilty1845 Ollendorffian1848 literose1859 stilted1874 Hisperic1904 1613 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Epist. c, in tr. Seneca Wks. (1614) 422 He confesseth openly, and letteth vs see that it is not an affected and laboured stile, but such a one as a man may know it was Fabianus writing. 1688 Animadversions upon Reflections Dr. B's Trav. 9 The Ancient Authors, in whose simplicity and seeming carelessness, there is a beauty that far exceeds all the painting of a laboured Stile. 1719 A. Philips in Free-thinker 16 Jan. (No. 86) 2 How flat and insipid are the laboured Writings of some Men of Skill, who scarce ever feel the Language of the Heart! 1757 C. Lennox tr. L. A. de La Beaumelle Mem. for Hist. Madame Maintenon I. ii. iv. 114 Mademoiselle d'Aubigné loved his thoughts, but hated the laboured style in which they were conveyed. 1774 A. Gerard Ess. Genius i. iii. 56 The laboured delineations of a poetaster, who would supply the want of genuine fancy by the industry of observation. 1826 J. Foster Let. in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) II. 84 Other writing of a laboured and tedious kind. 1845 Southern Literary Messenger Sept. 523/1 A labored effort to get away from the New Testament endorsement of the principle [of slavery], so far as permissibility is concerned. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 215 A labored investigation of evidence. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 15 The dialogue is generally weak and laboured. 1908 V. Bell Let. 11 Aug. in Sel. Lett. (1993) ii. 67 His humour is laboured and rather like an elephant in a china shop and I can't imagine it very well-mated to your wit. 1934 L. Charteris Boodle vii. 154 The message contained two lines in laboured script. 1977 L. J. Crabb Effective Biblical Counseling viii. 139 Right behavior without right thinking produces a labored, pressured, effortful brand of Christian obedience. 1999 Time Out N.Y. 10 June 137/1 Ness looks ridiculous, so copious are his tattoos, so labored is his quiff. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 May 21/3 On the whole, Lighthousekeeping's allusiveness is playful, if a bit laboured. c. Of a physical action: performed with great effort or difficulty; heavy. Also of a person or animal: heavy in movement. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > performed with great physical effort laboured1772 1772 J. M. Adair Comm. Princ. & Pract. Physic v. vii. 420 After the second dose, his face highly flushed, his breathing more laboured, his delirium outrageous. 1828 J. F. Cooper Notions Amer. (1835) I. 45 La Fayette moved slowly through the multitude, walking with a little difficulty from a personal infirmity... Each seemed to watch his laboured footstep, no one advanced to greet him. 1873 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 4) 240 A long and labored inspiration then takes place, giving rise to a crowing sound evidently due to spasm of the glottis. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 156 The laboured beat of the engines. 1930 J. W. Campbell in Amazing Stories Q. Fall 505/1 There were six of them, tall men, about seven feet high, and they walked with the rather labored step of a Venerean. 1949 P. G. Wodehouse Mating Season xxiv. 209 Dobbs..was more laboured in his movements and to an eye like mine, trained in the watching of point-to-point races, had all the look of an also-ran. 1980 D. Millman Peaceful Warrior (1984) ii. v. 148 My breathing was labored, and I had no energy left. 2005 J. Connor Pointless (2006) vii. 137 The wind sprints became laboured jogs after a couple of laps. †4. Employed or used in labour, esp. tiring manual labour; hard-worked. Also with distinguishing word; see also over-laboured adj. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [adjective] > toiling or working hard laboured1607 Stakhanovite1936 Stakhanovist1938 1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 395 b/2 A grete tempeste..in which they were..sore for-laboured.] 1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 4 My father by his painfull trade, Whose laboured Anuile only was his fee. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 232 Your King, whose labour'd spirits Fore-wearied in this action of swift speede. View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton Comus 11 What time the labour'd Oxe In his loose traces from the furrow came. 1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise i. i. 3 Turn'd out, like Labour'd Oxen, after Harvest. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epode ii, in tr. Horace Odes II. 275 See his labour'd Oxen bow Their languid Necks, and drag th' inverted Plow. 1797 T. Hull Moral Tales II. 25 No monarch of the feather'd brood Was heard aloud to crow, Nor laboured ox the vocal air Awaken with his low. 1816 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 33 74 The property tax on the tenant, the tax on laboured horses, and some other payments which bear principally on agriculture. 1820 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 5 Sept. (1941) II. 244 Two stout hard-laboured peasants. Derivatives ˈlabouredly adv. ΚΠ 1735 S. Wright Postscript to Serm. Script. & Trad. 24 This subject of charity to some that are under the Roman yoke, hath been most labouredly considered. 1836 Dublin Jrnl. Med. & Chem. Sci. 8 114 Heart pulsates regularly but slowly and labouredly; pulse a degree stronger. 1992 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Oct. c22/1 Sometimes these images coalesce to form astonishingly vivid pictures in the reader's mind. At other times, they seem laboredly poetic. ˈlabouredness n. ΚΠ 1857 R. Redgrave in Inventory Pictures, Drawings, Etchings Cromwell Gardens, South Kensington 8 Compared with the meagre minuteness, the petty prettiness, and feeble labouredness of Dow. 1930 J. W. Mackail Largeness in Lit. 6 Largeness is..the opposite..of thinness, of tightness, of labouredness. 1998 M. Montgomery Concerning Intellect. Philandering xv. 157 Perhaps the labor and laboredness is to a good end. 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