Both Uses of
strenuous
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Aye, no doubt; but that is what a governess will prevent, and if I had known your mother, I should have advised her most strenuously to engage one.†
Chpt 29 *
- It was an encouragement of vice; and had I been the rector of Longbourn, I should very strenuously have opposed it.†
Chpt 57
Definition:
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(strenuous) energetic; or physically or mentally difficult or requiring endurance