strenuity

English

Etymology

strenu(ous) +‎ -ity, from Latin strenuitas.

Noun

strenuity (uncountable)

(archaic) strenuousness; activity
- [1611?], Homer, “Book XV”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
  sword and fire should force
  Both ships and lives of all the Greeks.
  And thus, unlike affects Bred like strenuity in both.
  The spelling has been modernized.

References

“strenuity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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