Both Uses
laborious
in
The Fountainhead
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- It was not as if the draftsman had sat over them, pondering laboriously, piecing together doors, windows and columns, as his whim dictated and as the books prescribed.†
Chpt 1.1laboriously = with difficulty
- He did not plod laboriously through the centuries; he danced, said the critics, down the road of the ages, as a jester, a friend and a prophet.†
Chpt 1.6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(laborious) difficult (requiring hard work)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)