Definition of Laboriously

1. Adverb. In a laborious manner. "Their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them"

Partainyms: Laborious

Definition of Laboriously

1. Adverb. With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor. ¹

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Definition of Laboriously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laboriously

laboratory chemicals
laboratory coat
laboratory diagnosis
laboratory infection
laboratory personnel
laboratory techniques and procedures
labored
labored breathing
laboredly
laborer
laborers
laborforce
laborforces
laboring
laborious
laboriously (current term)
laboriousness
laboriousnesses
laborist
laborists
laborite
laborites
laborless
laborlore
laborous
labors
labors of love
laborsaving
laborshed
laborsheds

Literary usage of Laboriously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... slowly and 'laboriously. Because the ability to design and shape implements was of slow growth, it is evident that very early in his history the tools ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"He discovered the great rock-cut inscription of Darius at Behistun in Persia, which he copied, laboriously and successfully deciphered, and published in an ..."

3. History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the by Theodore Dwight (1833)
"... and the establishment of its operations; and was laboriously engaged in these patriotic labours at the moment when Mr. Jefferson was thus secretly ..."

4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... a-nd often laboriously acquired knowledge of the relation between means and ends. ... laboriously ..."

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