单词 | travailing |
释义 | travailingn. Now literary or archaic. 1. The action of labouring or toiling; great effort or exertion, hard work; pain, suffering, distress. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > action of wrestling?c1225 travailingc1330 tewing1394 labouringc1400 sweatingc1430 toiling1549 moiling1565 carking1583 allaboration1727 fagging1777 bullocking1888 schlepping1937 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 4648 What of wakeing, & of fasting, & eke þat oþer treueyling [c1475 Caius traueilling], Osleped swiþe sore ich was. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. l. 235 Wiþ techinge or with tilynge or trauaylynge of hondes. a1500 (c1400) Vision of Tundale (Adv.) (1843) l. 923 (MED) They [sc. souls] were payned yn trauelynge As a womman doth yn chyldynge. ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) ii. vi. sig. M iij v No small ease and discharge of laborsom trauayling. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 130 His souldiers out-toyled with travailing. 1712 R. D. Descr. Gospel Church 18 I may safely speak it by good Experience, from my travailing in this Duty above thirty six Years, that there is a thousand times, and a thousand more of Prayer in the Heart than in the Tongue. 1948 Church Hist. 17 193 How was it that Luther, despite his travailing of spirit, could be so tremendous in his faith, so incredible in his courage, so astounding in his output? 2013 Oracle (Oral Roberts Univ.) (Nexis) 22 Nov. 1 Little did I know that I would not only find my place in life here, but after about three months of serious travailing, I would start the career I've been praying for. 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. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). travailingadj. Now literary or archaic. 1. ΚΠ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. xiii. 3 Thenke ȝe on boundun men, as ȝe togidere boundun, and of trauelinge men, as and ȝe silf dwellinge in the body. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 22 (MED) In seekenesse toke he his delite and his glorie for the consequence of the rewarde by the seurte of the divyne grace, which failith neuir to traveling men at their nede. b. Labouring, toiling, working hard; characterized by or involving great effort or exertion. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > toiling swinking?c1225 travailinga1398 drudging1548 toiling1552 toilsome1566 toilful1596 sweaty1603 droiling1607 carkingc1620 laboriferous1656 fagging1665 moiling1692 tewing1855 maulinga1864 bullocking1900 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. xxiv. 332 Kynde slepe is aȝeinturnynge of þe spirites from depnes and fastnesse þat mete and drinke may be defied, as it farith in þe slepe of trauailinge men. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 3 He was possest with a minde traueling, busie, and ambicious. 1623 A. Darcie tr. P. Du Moulin Prepar. Suffer for Gospell of Christ 23 The faithfull haue but a trauailing life in this corruptible world, attending most blessed and happie immortalitie. 1700 A. Rigge Tender Exhort. Friends at Bristol 5 Oh that these travailing days may never be forgot, what way the Lord took to gather a People to himself, tho' through many hardships and difficulties, yet he crowned all with his Heavenly Presence. 1977 S. Dean Hardy's Poetic Vision in ‘the Dynasts’ 264 The word ‘inutile’ coming from him..would seem to confirm the testimony of travailing Earth. 2000 Times 26 June (Sport section) 99 The championship seems to be opening up for the ailing and travailing Sampras to cut his slice of history—if his mind and body can be patched up for one more charge. 2. Of a woman: suffering the pains of childbirth; in labour. Also in figurative contexts.Sometimes perhaps simply a contextual use of sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [adjective] > labour or pains in travailc1300 travailingc1405 labouring1540 child labour1585 laborious1615 in labour1623 c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1225 A womman trauailyng was hir biforn. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xlii. C I will crie like a trauelinge woman. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 88 Let her cast her Abortive Spawne without the danger of this travailling & throbbing Kingdome. 1747 T. Mall's Hist. Martyrs II. 116 Christ..saith, Wo be to the great bellied and travailing Women. 1832 G. Thompson Three Lect. Brit. & Colonial Slavery 13 Let it then be registered as one of the peculiar evils of British colonial slavery that it dooms the infant, even before it is born, (by putting an extra price upon the head of the travailing mother) to till the ground, an abject slave. 1913 ‘M. Field’ Mystic Trees 59 Mary is weary and heavy-laden, As a travailing woman may be. She calleth to Joseph wearily, At the Inn there is no room for me. 2010 @amadeusco 29 July in twitter.com (accessed 16 Sept. 2019) I need to pray. i feel like i'm going to give birth. (not in a travailing sort of way though.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > [adjective] > harassing griefa1300 grievous13.. travailinga1450 importunatea1500 unportunatea1533 importunable1566 infestive1570 infestuous1593 plaguey1595 infestious1597 importunous1598 obsidious1615 vexatious?1626 pestifying1716 harassing1833 obsidional1879 infesting1881 obseding1885 a1450 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvi. xlviii Þe same stone [jet] boþe blacke and ȝelow strengþeþ aȝens fantasies and aȝens..trauailinge fendes bi nyȝt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1330adj.c1384 |
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