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c1400 Prickynge of Love (Harl.) (1983) 32 (MED) Hys lord..deyned for to..make hym-self sogete to al vilitie and to most peynefulnesse.

a1425 (?a1400) Bk. Priue Counseling in P. Hodgson Cloud of Unknowing (1944) 157 (MED) Late hym bere his cros first in þe peynfulnes of hym-self, & siþ folow me into blis.

?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 31 (MED) Þou xalt for mannys wyckydnes Onys ben offeryd in peynfulnes.

?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) 608 O lord! wo xall put me from þis peynfulnesse?

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 33 Woide of all joy, but full of painfulnes.

a1622 E. Jocelin Mothers Legacie (1624) sig. B^v In respect of the painfulnesse of that kinde of death.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd ii. 31 On her dililigence dependeth my well-fare; on her slownesse, my painfulnesse, on her neglect, my despaire.

1665 R. South Serm. preached before Court 28 No Custom can make the painfulness of a debauch easie.

1759 A. Smith Theory Moral Sentiments i. §ii. i. 20 The pleasure which we find in conversing with a man whom we can entirely sympathise with..seems to do more than compensate the painfulness of that sorrow with which the view of his situation affects us.

1777 J. Richardson Diss. Eastern Nations 2 To soften the extreme painfulness of incessant labour.

1825 L. M. Child Rebels vii. 84 Mr. Whitfield's eloquence left..the sensitive heart of Grace in a state of painfulness, almost amounting to anguish.

1884 D. Pae Eustace 79 Forget the painfulness of our situation, and think of its romance.

1965 J. A. Greenhill Obstetrics xiii. 271/1 During pains the uterus contracts. This begins before the pain is felt and ends after the painfulness is over.

1990 Premiere July 36/3 He accepts the painfulness of things—loneliness, defeat, even despair.

a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCxxx For the vncertaynty of the same, and also for the paynfulnes and tedyousnes therof.

1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 32 Ordinary labour with festivall services to God can neither easily concurre, because painfulnesse and joy are opposite, nor decently.

1865 M. Arnold Ess. in Crit. 279 Mr. Long has firmly seized upon the clear thought which is certainly at the bottom of that troubled wording, and..has at the same time thrown round its expression a characteristic shade of painfulness and difficulty which just suits it.

1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds i. iv. 28 The evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. x. sig. bv In theim which be either gouernours or capitaynes..Paynfulnesse, named in latyne Tollerantia, is wonderfull commendable.

1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties ii. f. 77 No painfulness, no diligence, no caring.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxvii. 233 To testifie loue by painefulnesse in Gods seruice.

1612 W. Strachey Lawes in P. Force Tracts (1844) III. 62 Thus doing, he shall giue cause vnto the Generall, vnto his Captaine, and chiefe officers, to take notice of his painfulnesse, who may according to his desert in time giue him aduancement for the same.

1613 G. Markham Second Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 40 The Tyger..made many deceitfull doublings..measuring the ground with such painefulnesse, that no secret corner was left by him vntrodden.

1685 W. Clark Grand Tryal i. i. 3 Every part Of his Possessions clearly did express Their Masters virtue, care, and painfulness.

1755 W. Dodd Hymn of Callimachus vi. 159 From social banquets or the friendly feast His parents, still devising each pretext With painfulness of care, detain'd their son.