Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being laborious or attended with toil; toilsomeness; difficulty.
  • noun Diligence; habitual assiduity.

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  • noun The condition of being laborious.

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  • noun the quality of requiring extended effort

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Examples

  • This year's labor of laboriousness, hosted by a game but ultimately defeated Jane Lynch revealing that even this versatile talent couldn't rise above such mediocre material, was thankfully enlivened by a number of surprise and/or very deserving wins, especially when the drama categories kicked in.

    Roush Review: The 2011 Emmys 2011

  • It is incredibly funny, and while it does occasionally meander with the laboriousness of a test match, the heart of this expansive novel isn't just about cricket.

    Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka – review 2011

  • "Samaranch schemed for years to be appointed to the Olympic committee, sending unsolicited letters to its president, Avery Brundage, eulogizing in one of them the American's 'intelligence, laboriousness and love for [the] Olympic idea' and in another promising, 'I will entirely devote myself to go with your personality and prominent work.'"

    Dave Zirin: Burying Juan Antonio Samaranch 2010

  • "Samaranch schemed for years to be appointed to the Olympic committee, sending unsolicited letters to its president, Avery Brundage, eulogizing in one of them the American's 'intelligence, laboriousness and love for [the] Olympic idea' and in another promising, 'I will entirely devote myself to go with your personality and prominent work.'"

    Burying Juan Antonio Samaranch 2010

  • Elizabeth gives so much of herself -- despite the pain, despite the exhaustion, despite the laboriousness of the task -- to give a little something to people she doesn't know.

    Last Saturday and the piece of sky and trees Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Kottke posts a brilliant rant on the incredible laboriousness of being poly-FOAFed:

    Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives 2004

  • In one of his letters 4 October 1841 to Captain Beaufort he sounded discouraged by the laboriousness of the work and the fact that he apparently had had no acknowledgement of the data he had sent to the Royal Society.

    "But They are Very, Very Wrong" « Climate Audit 2006

  • Maurice — not with much justice considering the laboriousness of his life.

    Tales of all countries 2004

  • She wondered if he did not understand the laboriousness of the smile with which she listened to

    Main Street 2004

  • The Essays display both the laboriousness and the delight of thinking.

    Michel de Montaigne Foglia, Marc 2004

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