Strenuously

adv

adv ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a strenuous manner.

    "By my direction, however, the head of his unwieldy machine was so critically pointed that, feeling him foreright against the tender opening, a favourable motion from me met his timely thrust, by which the lips of it, strenuously dilated, gave way to his thus assisted impetuosity, so that we might both feel that he had gain'd a lodgement."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously wordnet

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"Tom said he would strenuously defend the charges."

Etymology

From strenuous + -ly.

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