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Definition of 'travail'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
* Hooker
- As everything of price, so this doth require travail .
*, II.20:
*:Travell and pleasure, most unlike in nature, are notwithstanding followed together by a kind of I wot not what natural conjunction.
* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 38:
- He had thought of making a destiny for himself, through laborious and untiring travail .
Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
(obsolete|countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
(obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
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Verb
( en-verb)
To toil.
* Latimer
- slothful persons which will not travail for their livings
To go through the labor of childbirth.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XIV:
- A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe, be cause her houre is come: but as sone as she is delivered off her chylde she remembreth no moare her anguysshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde.
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