operosenessn.
/ˈɒp(ə)rəʊsnəs/, U.S. /ˈɑp(ə)ˌroʊsnəs/ Now rare (literary).
Operose character or quality; laboriousness; elaborateness.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > laboriousness
painfulnessa1530
laborousness1530
laboriousness1538
laboursomeness1573
toilsomeness1577
operosity1615
laboriosity1656
laborosity1656
operoseness1664
ponderousness1801
1664 H. More Expos. 7 Epist. Pref. c v b They..have not that operosenesse of Synchronisms necessarily hanging on them.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 487 All that..affects you, is a stiffness and stateliness and operoseness of Stile.
1714 A. Boyer Mem. Sir W. Temple 395 All that takes and affects you, is Stiffness and Stateliness, and Operoseness of Stile.
1817 H. T. Colebrooke tr. Bhāskara Āchārya in Algebra 80 The objection to this mode of finding the diagonals is its operoseness.
1856 Titan Mag. Nov. 392/2 Sully, in the midst of his operoseness, evinces many really beautiful..qualities.
1963 Philos. Q. 13 269 His love of books is ‘bibliophilistic’; his addiction to action ‘operoseness’.
2001 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 4 June e1 I have to wonder if I should have approached my own schooling with more operoseness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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