adv. [f. STRENUOUS a. + -LY2.] In a strenuous manner.
The first example is merely in ridicule of Marston’s use of the adj.: see note s.v. STRENUOUS.
1601. B. Jonson, Poetaster, II. i. 14. I am most strenuously well, I thanke you, sir.
1631. Weever, Anc. Funeral Mon., 257. He had strenuously gouerned his Church the space of 26. yeares.
1662. A. Cooper, Stratologia, VII. 150. Their Mines and Batteries strenuously they ply’d.
a. 1708. Beveridge, Thes. Theol. (1710), II. 276. These works we ought to do,… strenuously, or with our might.
1766. Goldsm., Vic. W., xiii. My wife very strenuously insisted upon the advantages that would result from it.
1856. Macaulay, Biog., Johnson (1860), 85. His marriage made it necessary for him to exert himself more strenuously than he had hitherto done.
1857. Dickens, Lett. (1880), II. 7. I still strenuously believe that I did so.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 253. That God being good is the author of evil to any one, is to be strenuously denied.
