[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Laborious character or condition; assiduity in work; toilsomeness.
1634. W. Tirwhyt, trans. Balzac’s Lett. (vol. I.), 89. That great laboriousnesse they so much frame to themselves.
1682. Sir T. Browne, Chr. Mor., 38. To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, I. 135. The exceeding Laboriousness of my Work.
1818. Hallam, Middle Ages (1853), II. 62. Masdeu, in learning and laboriousness, the first Spanish antiquary.
1861. Lytton & Fane, Tannhäuser, 32. Leaf and stem disintertwined itself With infinite laboriousness.
