strenuouslyadv.
/ˈstrɛnjuːəsli/ In a strenuous manner. The first example is merely in ridicule of Marston's use of the adjective: see note s.v. strenuous adj.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adverb]
hardOE
sorea1300
mightilya1400
strenuously1602
intenselya1631
effortfully1961
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster ii. i. sig. C I am most strenuously well, I thanke you Sir. View more context for this quotation
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 257 He had strenuously gouerned his Church the space of 26. yeares.
1662 A. Cooper Στρατολογια vii. 150 Their Mines and Batteries strenuously they ply'd.
a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1710) II. 276 These works we ought to do,..strenuously, or with our might.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xiii. 126 My wife very strenuously insisted upon the advantages that would result from it.
1856 T. B. Macaulay Johnson in Biogr. (1860) 85 His marriage made it necessary for him to exert himself more strenuously than he had hitherto done.
1857 C. Dickens Let. 19 Jan. (1995) VIII. 264 I still strenuously believe that I did so.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 253 That God being good is the author of evil to any one, is to be strenuously denied.
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