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Definition of Operosely
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Operosely
Literary usage of Operosely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton, Henry Longueville Mansel, John Veitch (1870)
"... and it is curious that the ingenuity which suggested to its supporters the
petty and recondite objections they have so operosely combated, ..."
2. The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton by William Hamilton (1872)
"... and it is curious that the in genuity, which suggested to its supporters the
petty and recon dite objections they have so operosely combated, ..."
3. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"Not operosely, and as my business, but only on the bye, and as was fit in reference
to a thing that was to be waved, and not insisted on. ..."
4. For the Oracles of God, Four Orations: For Judgment to Come, an Argument, in by Edward Irving (1824)
"... and with uplifted eye acknowledges the genial heat of the sun, acquaints
himself no less with the knowledge, and operosely pursues the practice of his ..."
5. An Appeal in Behalf of the Views of the Eternal World and State and the by Samuel Noble (1851)
"How much less operosely is the case accounted for by supposing, that, man being
himself similar in nature to angels as to his interior constitution, ..."
6. An Appeal in Behalf of the Views of the Eternal World and State and the by Samuel Noble (1851)
"How much less operosely is the case accounted for by supposing, that, man being
himself similar in nature to angels as to his interior constitution, ..."
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