How to pronounce“roboreous”in English
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Definitions of “roboreous”
Synonym of oaken, made of oak wood.
Synonym of sturdy, resembling the strength, firmness, &c. of oak.
“A critic, if morbidly prone to carping, might object even to this reading on the ground that an unsophisticated Englishman, however tender hearted, if at all deficient in imagination might mistake the figurative allusion to the "fires" of affection, for a literal reference to those more roboreous fires of his corporeal existence, which are, proverbially, the combined product of vigorous digestion […]”