labouringly
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[edit]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.