Sickness, disease, pestilence; an attack of illness, as swooning, the pains of childbirth, etc.
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释义 | the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > labour or pains (19) cothec1000 Sickness, disease, pestilence; an attack of illness, as swooning, the pains of childbirth, etc. throea1200 An intense spasm of pain experienced during labour; a uterine contraction; (also, in plural) the pain and effort of labour or childbirth. Also in… pining throesc1225 labour pains. travailc1300 The effort and pain of childbirth; labour. Frequently (and earliest) in in travail: in labour. Also figurative. showera1350 spec. In plural. Pains experienced during childbirth; labour pains. Scottish after Middle English. paina1398 Chiefly in plural. The physical suffering experienced when giving birth; labour. travailinga1400 The effort and pain of childbirth; labour. Frequently (and earliest) in in (or at) travailing: in labour. Cf. travail, n.1 2. throng1540 The pain of childbirth; (in plural) labour pains. Cf. throe, n. 1a. Obsolete. labouring1598 The action of labour, v. (in various senses); esp. the action of doing hard (often unskilled) physical work. Also: an instance of this. travail pang1652 (usually in plural) a pain experienced during childbirth (also figurative); cf. travail pain n., labour pains n. at labour, n. compounds 2. travail pain1662 pain experienced during childbirth; (usually in plural) a pain of this type; cf. travail pang n., labour pains n. at labour, n. compounds 2. labour pains1703 pains experienced during childbirth. mother-pain1709 mother-pang1710 breeding sicknessa1714 bearing pain1787 In sense 1b, as in bearing pain, bearing time, etc. Now rare. troublea1825 A woman's travail. (Also of an animal.) dialect or euphemistic. birth throe1837 In sense 4, frequently denoting the pain of childbirth, as birth pang, birth throe, etc. Often figurative or in figurative contexts. Subcategories:— induction (1) |
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