| 单词 | in travailing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (or at) travailing 2. The effort and pain of childbirth; labour. Frequently (and earliest) in in (or at) travailing: in labour. Cf. travail n.1 2.Sometimes perhaps simply a contextual use of sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > labour or pains cothec1000 throea1200 pining throesc1225 travailc1300 showera1350 paina1398 travailinga1400 throng1540 labouring1598 travail pang1652 travail pain1662 labour pains1703 mother-pain1709 mother-pang1710 breeding sicknessa1714 bearing pain1787 troublea1825 birth throe1837 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3487 In trauelling [Gött. trauayling, Fairf. traualyng]..Ful herd it was þair moder pain. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 402 (MED) He wiste not at sho was with childe to sho was evyn at travellyng. 1596–7 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. 89 His wyif..was in traveling. 1655 in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. (1912) V. 133 Janet Liell..being with Janet Couper when sche was in travelling. 1710 tr. T. Sydenham Compl. Method curing Dis. (ed. 4) 173 I believe that of all those who die in Childbed, scarce the tenth Woman,..perishes either by the cruelty of the Pains of Travailing, or for want of strength to undergo them. 1850 R. W. Mackay Progress of Intellect II. vi. x. 219 It would be difficult to decide whether the mysterious intimation of Micah that the period of national delivery..was to be identical with that of the travailing of a mother..or whether it has a more definite relation to some actual contemporaneous pregnancy. 2011 B. J. Robinson Travailing: Guide to Spiritual Birthing & Breakthrough 45 One of the pains and sufferings related to travailing is the fear of the unborn being aborted prematurely or the idea that there could be a miscarriage due to some unforseen happenings or force. < as lemmas |
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