"laboriosity" meaning in English

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          "text": "It is a hard thing to be obliged to lay bare the nakedness of our own father-land, and feel ourselves compelled to confess that a foreign people, whom we had long looked down upon with contempt, making slighting mention occasionally, now of their minute laboriosity, now of their mad extravagance, have stolen a march upon us even in our most beloved paths, and cropped, as Pindar says, the tips of all the virtues from before us.",
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          "text": "Aristotle therefore may justly be regarded as the great prototype of those modern Germans who, like the mailed knights of the middle ages, stand up in our libraries, cased in the invulnerable panoply of polyhistoric and encyclopædic erudition; and he gave birth to that curious sort of intellectual laboriosity, which when divorced from his genius and his sagacity, produced those accumulations of written and printed record, under which the shelves of so many libraries groan, by which also, we may justly say, not a few strong intellects have been lost to the living world, smothered beneath heaps of cumbrous babblement, in extent infinite, in value infinitesimal.",
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          "ref": "1976, Paulina Gahol Orlina, Taal, page 79:",
          "text": "The Taal folks possess among other qualities extraordinary laboriosity and industriousness; the people of Taal, as a rule, exaggerates human activity which the Americans express with the famous phrase — Time is gold.",
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