Laboriosity
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Laboriousness. uncountable
"It is a hard thing to be obliged to lay bare the nakedness of our own father-land, and feel ourselves compelled to confess that a foreign people, whom we had long looked down upon with contempt, making slighting mention occasionally, now of their minute laboriosity, now of their mad extravagance, have stolen a march upon us even in our most beloved paths, and cropped, as Pindar says, the tips of all the virtues from before us."
Example
More examples"It is a hard thing to be obliged to lay bare the nakedness of our own father-land, and feel ourselves compelled to confess that a foreign people, whom we had long looked down upon with contempt, making slighting mention occasionally, now of their minute laboriosity, now of their mad extravagance, have stolen a march upon us even in our most beloved paths, and cropped, as Pindar says, the tips of all the virtues from before us."
Etymology
From laborious + -ity.
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