labouringly

English

Alternative forms

• laboringly

Etymology

labouring +‎ -ly

Adverb

labouringly (comparative more labouringly, superlative most labouringly)

1. 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.