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ˈtravailous, a. Obs. or arch.
Forms: 4 trau-, traveilous, (trauyliouse), 4–5 trauelous, 4–6 trauailous, 5 trauaillous, traueyllous, (travelos), 6 trauaylous, 4–6, 9 travailous.
[a. OF. travaillos, traveilleus, -ous toilsome (12th c. in Godef.), f. travail travail n.1: see -ous.]
Full of or characterized by ‘travail’ or hard labour; toilsome; laborious; wearisome.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 29 Lya [Leah] es als mekill at say as trauyliouse, and betakyns actyfe lyfe. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 273 Þe opyn meke and pore and traveilouse lif of Crist. 1382― Exod. vi. 6, Y the Lord, that schal lede ȝow out of the traveilous prisoun of Egipciens. 1565Stapleton tr. Bede's Hist. Ch. Eng. 21 To take any more such trauaylous iourneis. 1888Doughty Arabia Deserta I. 59 Better his mother had been barren, than that her womb should have borne such a sorry travailous life.
Hence † ˈtravailously adv. Obs. rare.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 439 Þei moten lyue, trewely, trauelously & perelously. 1382― Bible, Pref. Epist. St. Jerome i, Plato to..thilk brynk of Itali,..ful traueilousli ȝede. 1382― Wisd. xv. 7 The crockere, the nesshe erthe threstende, trauailously [Vulg. laboriose], maketh to oure vses eche vessel. |