Adjective

(en adjective)

Devoted; loyal; conscientious.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Urgent, ardent, zealous.

Requiring great exertion.

* 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.

We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.