ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Travailous

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Travailous is an adjective meaning (obsolete, now rare) Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome.

Meaning

(obsolete, now rare) Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome.

Example Sentences

[…] 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!

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include labourous, laborous, labourious, toilsom, toylesome, toylsom.

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