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laboriousness

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la·bo·ri·ous  (l-bôr-s, -br-)
adj.
1. Marked by or requiring long, hard work: spent many laborious hours on the project.
2. Hard-working; industrious.
[Middle English, from Old French laborieux, from Latin labrisus, from labor, labor.]
la·bori·ous·ly adv.
la·bori·ous·ness n.
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Noun1.laboriousness - the quality of requiring extended effort
operoseness, toilsomeness
effortfulness - the quality of requiring deliberate effort


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Will only thought of giving a good pinch that would annihilate that vaunted laboriousness, and was unable to imagine the mode in which Dorothea would be wounded.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
To this short time allowed for labour I desire may be added the exceeding laboriousness of my work; the many hours which, for want of tools, want of help, and want of skill, everything I did took up out of my time.
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel View in context
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