单词 | travail pang |
释义 | > as lemmastravail pang travail pang n. now rare (usually in plural) a pain experienced during childbirth (also figurative); cf. travail pain n., labour pains n. at labour n. Compounds 2. 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 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iv. i. 52 All Travell-pangs, all New-birth Heart-deep Groans, All After-births of Penitential Mones, Are swallow'd up in living Streams of Bliss. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 86 The travail-pangs are violent, sudden, irresistible. 1938 Geogr. Jrnl. 92 462 There is no birth, only obstruction, fruitless throes, and vain travail pangs. < as lemmas |
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