strenuosity
- a word derived from strenuous.
Example Sentences
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Because we are prone to advise others to do what we enjoy doing ourselves it was inevitable that so strenuous a man as T. R. should advocate wholesale, universal and almost compulsory strenuosity.
From How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Benedict, Elsie Lincoln
Mr Shaw allows his classical amateurship and respectable strenuosity of character, but denounces his work, with a substratum of truth, as that of a “blathering, unreadable pedant.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
Such patients must be taught to lead tranquil lives without any of the excitement and strenuosity that, after all, accomplishes so little.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
There was much strenuosity and little art in the performance.
From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl
Roosevelt had the same characteristic but he displayed it with much more animation and strenuosity.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
