Both Uses of
strenuous
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Babbitt
- But Babbitt strenuously believed and lengthily announced to the world of Good Fellows that Paul could have been a great violinist or painter or writer.†
Chpt 4 *
- He heard Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A. and leader of the church-choir, a pale but strenuous young man with curly hair and a smile, teaching a class of sixteen-year-old boys.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(strenuous) energetic; or physically or mentally difficult or requiring endurance