strenuity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
strenu(ous) + -ity, from Latin strenuitas.
Noun[edit]
strenuity (uncountable)
- (archaic) strenuousness; activity
- [1611?], Homer, “Book XV”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
- sword and fire should force
Both ships and lives of all the Greeks.
And thus, unlike affects Bred like strenuity in both.
References[edit]
- “strenuity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.