Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being operose or laborious.
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- noun archaic The state of being
operose ;tedium .
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- noun the quality of requiring extended effort
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With these observations I pass the major of this syllogism; the minor he thus confirms: — “If the saints be in no possibility of being finally overcome by Satan, or of miscarrying in the great and most important business of their salvation, by his snares and subtleties, all that operoseness and diligence of the Holy
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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