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(obsolete, now rare) Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome..
[…] of my redemption thence, / And portance in travailous history,
A pined and jaded man he was before his middle days, and unlikely to live to full age. Better his mother had been barren, than that her womb should have borne such a sorry travailous life!
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Travailous means (obsolete, now rare) Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome..
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[…] of my redemption thence, / And portance in travailous history,
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