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Definition of Laboured
1. Adjective. Lacking natural ease. "A labored style of debating"
2. Adjective. Requiring or showing effort. "The subject made for labored reading"
Definition of Laboured
1. Verb. (past of labour) ¹
2. Adjective. Of an action that is difficult to perform. ¹
3. Adjective. Of writing or speech or similar, stilted or not natural due to too much effort being used in the production. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Laboured
1. labour [v] - See also: labour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laboured
Literary usage of Laboured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In the spring of 1634 Father John Altham, a Jesuit companion of Father Andrew
White, the Maryland missionary, laboured amongst some of the Virginia tribes ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"1430-1479), Italian painter, was probably born at Messina about the beginning of
the isth century, and laboured at his art for some time in bis native ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"orators who, ir studied panegyrics, have laboured to exalt the glory of Constantine.
Nine years after the Roman victory Naza- ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"laboured so many years and with such diligence of study. Although I promised to
obey him, he reflected, like a man of sense, ..."
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