vigorousness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VIG'OROUSNESS, noun The quality of being vigorous or possessed of active strength. [Vigor and all its derivatives imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.]
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