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Definition of Toilsomeness
1. Noun. The quality of requiring extended effort.
Generic synonyms: Effortfulness
Derivative terms: Laborious, Operose, Toilsome
Definition of Toilsomeness
1. Noun. The quality of being toilsome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Toilsomeness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toilsomeness
Literary usage of Toilsomeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Morning Communings with God: Or, Devotional Meditations for Every Day in the by Christoph Christian Sturm (1858)
"... Vanity, and toilsomeness * of temporal Existence. As often as with every new
day I enter anew into the world, I obtain fresh experience of the vanity, ..."
2. Morning Communings with God; Or, Devotional Mediations for Every Day in the Year by Christoph Christian Sturm, William Johnston (1847)
"Reflections on the Briefness, Vanity, and toilsomeness of temporal Existence.
As often as with every new day I enter anew into the world, I obtain fresh ..."
3. Sermons Preached in Manchester by Alexander Maclaren (1873)
"I wish to point out a little more in detail the signs that Vv-c have in the gospel
of this characteristic of Christ's work,— the toilsomeness of His service ..."
4. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1860)
"... of the summit —the cornfields at its base, extending more or less up tho
slope—then the woods, and, lastly, the grass—the toilsomeness of the ascent, ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... house attends His hard life's toilsomeness, Increasing more and more; Of
troubles a Cretan sea. But from the halls of death Some god restrains his feet, ..."
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