a. (UN-1 7.)
1644. Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 54. The Parlament, whose command perhaps made all things seem easie and unlaborious to them.
1750. Mrs. Carter, Johnsons Rambler, No. 44, ¶ 7. Does she [sc. Religion] lead her votaries through flowery paths, and bid them pass an unlaborious life?
1809. Edin. Rev., XIV. 4. The simple and unlaborious plenty which reigned among the scattered inhabitants.
1863. Ld. Lytton, Ring Amasis, I. 260. Those wandering but not unlaborious days.
Hence Unlaboriousness.
1642. J. Caryl, Wks. of Ephesus Expl., 21. Unlaboriousnesse is the buriall of our workes.