strenuous
adjective
characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc..
strenuosity
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a word derived from
strenuous.
Example Sentences
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Such people, and those who care for them, must not make the mistake of thinking that rough handling, strenuosity, will cure what is apparently a fixed character.
From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson
He put a curb on strenuosity; started to study the French temperament; he began to see why he had not succeeded.
From The War After the War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
And Chapman would always have been a blathering unreadable pedant, like Landor, in spite of his classical amateurship and respectable strenuosity of character.
From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Bernard Shaw
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 James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
And in her gentle trustfulness it was not hard to make his excuses, for the Monday morning brought the strenuosity in the career of David Kildare to a state of absolute acuteness.
From Andrew the Glad by Maria Thompson Daviess
