STRENUOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strenuously mean? 

• STRENUOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb STRENUOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously

  Familiarity information: STRENUOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRENUOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously

Context example:

he objected strenuously to the stand his party was taking

Pertainym:

strenuous (characterized by or performed with much energy or force)

 Context examples 

Aye, no doubt; but that is what a governess will prevent, and if I had known your mother, I should have advised her most strenuously to engage one.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Wingfield most strenuously recommended it, sir—or we should not have gone.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I spoke; I told them to retire and consider of what had been said, that I would not lead them farther north if they strenuously desired the contrary, but that I hoped that, with reflection, their courage would return.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Well might I dread, well might I dislike Mrs. Reed; for it was her nature to wound me cruelly; never was I happy in her presence; however carefully I obeyed, however strenuously I strove to please her, my efforts were still repulsed and repaid by such sentences as the above.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To this plan I strenuously objected, and so far as my going was concerned, for I said that I intended to stay and protect Mina, I thought that my mind was made up on the subject; but Mina would not listen to my objection.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Thinking, as I did, that he was speaking of our own old Queen Charlotte, I could make no meaning out of this; but my father told me afterwards that both Nelson and Lady Hamilton had conceived an extraordinary affection for the Queen of Naples, and that it was the interests of her little kingdom which he had so strenuously at heart.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was an encouragement of vice; and had I been the rector of Longbourn, I should very strenuously have opposed it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

With a careless motion, she flung to the ground, callous as a devil, the child that up to now she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)