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strenuously, adv.|ˈstrɛnjuːəslɪ|
[f. strenuous a. + -ly2.]
In a strenuous manner.
The first example is merely in ridicule of Marston's use of the adj.: see note s.v. strenuous.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster ii. i. 14, I am most strenuously well, I thanke you, sir. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 257 He had strenuously gouerned his Church the space of 26. yeares. 1662A. Cooper Stratologia vii. 150 Their Mines and Batteries strenuously they ply'd. a1708Beveridge Thes. Theol. (1710) II. 276 These works we ought to do,..strenuously, or with our might. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xiii, My wife very strenuously insisted upon the advantages that would result from it. 1856Macaulay Biog., Johnson (1860) 85 His marriage made it necessary for him to exert himself more strenuously than he had hitherto done. 1857Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 7, I still strenuously believe that I did so. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 253, That God being good is the author of evil to any one, is to be strenuously denied. |