[f. STRENUOUS a. + -NESS.] The quality of being strenuous.
a. 1649. in N. & Q., Ser. I. X. 357. Strenuousnes must be added, if he find resistance, amongst other virtues which compleate a judge.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Strenuousness, Vigorousness, Earnestness, Laboriousness.
1819. Chalmers, Serm. Tron Ch., iv. 121. The man has put forth all his strenuousness to the task of accomplishing all that he is able for.
1909. R. Law, Tests of Life, v. 69. This the writer maintains with unexampled strenuousness and rigour.
