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▪ I. painstaking, n.|ˈpeɪnzˌteɪkɪŋ|
[f. pains, pl. of pain n.1 (sense 6) + taking, gerund of take v.]
The taking of pains; the bestowal of careful and attentive labour in order to the accomplishment of something; assiduous effort.
1556Olde Antichrist 85 This is their paynes taking and trauaile. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. 5 Their posterity haue liued in sorrow and paines-taking euer since. 1737Whiston Josephus, Hist. i. xviii. §2 (1777), They did not shew any want of pains-taking. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men II. v. 44 That mastery of the art of preaching which results from laborious painstaking.
▪ II. painstaking, a.|ˈpeɪnzˌteɪkɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + taking, pr. pple. of take v.]
That takes pains; bestowing attentive effort for the accomplishment of some result; careful and industrious; assiduous.
1696Tryon Misc. i. 23 The Richer sort..[are] much more Distempered than the Ordinary pains-taking People. 1712Cooke Voy. S. Sea 399 The Natives are..industrious, and Pains taking. 1882W. Ballantine Exper. xi. 116 The case was tried..before..a most painstaking judge.
b. Of actions, productions, etc.: Marked or characterized by attentive care.
1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxiv, The satisfaction of receiving Mr. Sherlock's painstaking production in print. 1895J. W. Budd in Law Times XCIX. 544/2 The..painstaking manner in which they superintend..this department.
Hence ˈpainsˌtakingly adv., with careful and attentive effort, assiduously.
a1861Clough Poems, etc. (1869) I. 318 Setting himself laboriously and painstakingly to work. 1891Sat. Rev. 19 Dec. 705/2 This little book has been painstakingly prepared. |