strenuosity
- a word derived from strenuous.
Example Sentences
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I hardly wonder, when they come to scan The upshot of their strenuosity, They gazed with mixed emotions upon me.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
The condition is as difficult today for the process of denominational fission has gone steadily forward, and as this energy of the religious influence weakens the strenuosity of maintenance strengthens.
From Towards the Great Peace by Cram, Ralph Adams
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
The building is rather modern in appearance, suggesting comfort rather than strenuosity.
From The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five by Hine, C. G. (Charles Gilbert)
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 Daviess, Maria Thompson
