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† ˈlaborous, a. Obs.
Forms: 4–7 laborous, 5 -ose, 5–8 labourous, 6 -orouse, -orus, 5–6 -erous, Sc. laubo(u)r(o)us.
[a. OF. laboros, -us, laboureux:—L. *labōrōs-us, f. labor labour (cf. dolōrōsus, f. dolor): see -ous.]
= laborious.
c1386Chaucer Friar's T. 130 Myn offyce is ful laborous [Corpus MS. laborious]. a1450Fysshynge w. angle (1883) 4 Huntyng haukyng and fowlyng be so laborous & greuous þat [etc.]. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. lii. 125 Wheþer all laborose þinges be not to be suffrid for euerlasting lif? c1460Ashby Poems 87 Be ye therin right laberous. c1470Henry Wallace xi. 958 His laubourous mynd on othir materis wrocht. 1513Douglas æneis iii. vi. 199 Quhow thow may all laubourus pane sustene. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 72 We nede not a longer or more laborous profe. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 266 For husbands life is labourous and hard. 1593T. Hill Gardening 3 Then must you dig a pit (although y⊇ same wil be very labourous). 1656Earl of Monmouth Advt. fr. Parnass. 153 Why should we undertake the laborous business of dividing the world into equal partitions? 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4057/3 After a labourous..March. 1782T. Vaughan Fash. Follies I. 67 Reading and writing..were too laborous [ed. 2 (1810) laborious] for the nerves of a man of fashion.
Hence † ˈlaborously adv., † ˈlaborousness.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. v. 69 Oþir, þat..desiren laborously þinges euerlasting. Ibid. iii. xxxvi. 106 Þat þat is laboresly goten by mannys witte. 1530Palsgr. 237/1 Labourousnesse, laboriosité. 1531Elyot Gov. iii. x. (1880) II. 275 He laborousely and studiousely discussed controuersies. |