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ˈopeˌrosely, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an operose manner: laboriously, busily; elaborately.
1668H. More Div. Dial. ii. xviii. (1713) 148, I take his Sophistry to be so conspicuous, that I think it not needful..more operosely to confute it. 1792A. Young Trav. France 411, I have seen, in the operosely cultivated parts of France, labour comparatively dear, and ill performed, amidst swarms of half idle people. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. (1877) II. xxviii. 168 The petty and recondite objections they have so operosely combated. |