Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an arduous manner; with laboriousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.
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- adverb in an
arduous manner
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- adverb in an arduous manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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"To think" and to take a matter "seriously," "arduously" -- that is one and the same thing to them; such only has been their "experience."
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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Indeed, it seems that they were living that way also to do things arduously.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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We must continue to work arduously for the release of so many other political prisoners whose names and faces are known but to their families and their torturers.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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All this business gloriously kept my attention occupied while my insides tried ever so arduously to deal with the trauma of it all.
Sally Fay: Dealing With The Rough Ride Of Divorce Sally Fay 2011
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She adds, believably: "It's not easy to leave a life as arduously rich and difficult as all that."
After Empire Martin Rubin 2011
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We must continue to work arduously for the release of so many other political prisoners whose names and faces are known but to their families and their torturers.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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Our analogue engineers had to arduously punch in words or syllables that needed pitch correction and that could take some serious billable time.
Lorraine Devon Wilke: Grammy Awards, Taco Bell & Esperanza Spalding: the Art of Authenticity Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011
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All this business gloriously kept my attention occupied while my insides tried ever so arduously to deal with the trauma of it all.
Sally Fay: Dealing With The Rough Ride Of Divorce Sally Fay 2011
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Since becoming speaker in 2006, she has worked arduously to cement a tight alliance with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and gain acceptance in the business community, marking a turnaround for an openly gay activist who launched her career in politics as a rabble-rousing liberal.
Quinn Makes Jobs Proposal a Centerpiece Michael Howard Saul 2011
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We must continue to work arduously for the release of so many other political prisoners whose names and faces are known but to their families and their torturers.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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