strenuously

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   In a strenuous manner.

   By my direction, however, the head of his unwieldy machine was so critically pointed that, feeling him foreright against the tender opening, a favourable motion from me met his timely thrust, by which the lips of it, strenuously dilated, gave way to his thus assisted impetuosity, so that we might both feel that he had gain'd a lodgement.

2. 2
   adv

   in a strenuous manner

From strenuous + -ly.

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