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toilful, a.|ˈtɔɪlfʊl|
[f. toil n.1]
Full of toil.
1. Of an agent or his actions: Characterized by toiling; labouring; hard-working.
1596Spenser Hymn Heavenly Love 227 Betweene the toylefull Oxe and humble Asse. a1789Mickle Liberty xvii, The fruitful lawns confess his toilful care. 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 70 We behold the patient train of the toilful muleteer, slowly moving along the skirts of the mountain. 1839–40― Wolfert's R., Mountjoy (1855) 33 The wild⁓flowers were no longer..the resorts of the toilful bee. 1887Blackie in Blackw. Mag. Oct. 536 The toilful monks of Croyland Clave the clod.
2. Of an action, condition, etc.: = toilsome 1.
1614Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iv. 432 Hee..that..In Toil-full Fears will his own death procure. 1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 105 Long trauell, tyrings, and toylefull labours. 1847W. Irving in Life IV. 11 This has been a toilful year to me. 1859Farrar J. Home 96 Climbing with toilful progress some steep and rocky hill.
Hence ˈtoilfully adv., in a toilful manner.
1832tr. Tour Germ. Prince II. vii. 124 A white footpath winded along toilfully through the brown heather. 1860Farrar Orig. Lang. i. 3 We toilfully examine the unburied monuments of extinct nations. 1882E. Arnold Pearls of Faith (1883) 144 There through toilfully, with steps of pain Went an old Jew. |