Meanings
nounstrenuity (uncountable)
- archaicuncountablestrenuousness; activity
sword and fire should force Both ships and lives of all the Greeks. And thus, unlike affects Bred like strenuity in both.
[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
Origin
- Latinstrenuitas
- Englishstrenuity
From strenu(ous) + -ity, from Latin strenuitas.
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