labouringly
English
Alternative forms
- laboringly
Etymology
labouring + -ly
Adverb
labouringly (comparative more labouringly, superlative most labouringly)
- With labour; strenuously.
- 1901, Thomas Hardy, Zermatt to the Matterhorn
- Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, / Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, / Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled height, / And four lives paid for what the seven had won.
- 1901, Thomas Hardy, Zermatt to the Matterhorn