Strenuously
['strɛnjʊəsli]
Definition
(adv.) in a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously; 'he objected strenuously to the stand his party was taking'.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Earnestly, ardently, vigorously, zealously, resolutely, energetically, actively, with all one's might, with might and main, tooth and nail, PUGNIS ET CALCIBUS, HAMMER AND TONGS, through thick and thin, through fire and water.
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Examples
- I represented that I knew him (as I did and do) to be strenuously opposed to it, both in opinion and action. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But the more strenuously Mr. Pott entreated, the more vehemently the screams poured forth. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Strenuously she claimed her connection with him, across the invisible space of the water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Burroughs objected strenuously, for he did not wish to market the machine until he was convinced that it was perfect, but he finally agreed to manufacture fifty machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If the record is as fragmentary as many geologists strenuously assert, there is nothing strange in new forms appearing as if suddenly developed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Edison's claims were strenuously and stubbornly contested throughout a series of intense legal conflicts that raged in the courts for a great many years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Aye, no doubt; but that is what a governess will prevent, and if I had known your mother, I should have advised her most strenuously to engage one. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Mr. Wingfield most strenuously recommended it, siror we should not have gone. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Thus constant devotion to pursuits strenuously demanding labour-saving devices evolved a race of keen inventors and mechanics. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was an encouragement of vice; and had I been the rector of Longbourn, I should very strenuously have opposed it. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I had opposed the movement strenuously, but acquiesced because it was the order of my superior at the time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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