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Travail   /trəvˈeɪl/   Listen
noun
Travail  n.  
1.
Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. "As everything of price, so this doth require travail."
2.
Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.


Travail  n.  Same as Travois.


verb
Travail  v. t.  To harass; to tire. (Obs.) "As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility."


Travail  v. i.  (past & past part. travailed; pres. part. travailing)  
1.
To labor with pain; to toil. (Archaic) "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings."
2.
To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.





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"Travail" Quotes from Famous Books



... energy, and in order to ensure its own continuance and healthy stability it demands, and no doubt rightly demands, of each of its citizens that he should contribute some form of productive labour to the common weal, and toil and travail that the day's work may be done. Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. The beautiful sterile emotions that art excites in us are hateful in its eyes, and so completely are people dominated by the tyranny of this dreadful social ideal that ...
— Intentions • Oscar Wilde
... four o'clock on Sunday morning when Vesuvius finally reached the climax of her travail. With a deep groan of anguish the mountain burst asunder, and from its side rolled a great stream of molten lava that slowly spread down the slope, consuming trees, vineyards and dwellings in its path and overwhelming the fated city ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad • Edith Van Dyne
... infant, as soon as Nature with great pangs of travail hath sent it forth from the womb of its mother into the regions of light, lies, like a sailor cast out from the waves, naked upon the earth in utter want and helplessness; and fills every place around with mournful wailings and piteous lamentation, ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 • Various
... of my travail I am also beneath the burden of earlier griefs. Yesterday a disastrous scene took place between us. Oaths rasped ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
... once that they came from Satan. Over and above the great aridity which remains in the soul after these evil locutions, there is also a certain disquiet, such as I have had on many other occasions, when, by our Lord's permission, I fell into great temptations and travail of soul in diverse ways; and though I am in trouble often enough, as I shall show hereafter, [10] yet this disquiet is such that I know not whence it comes; only the soul seems to resist, is troubled and distressed, without knowing why; for the words of Satan are good, and not evil. ...
— The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus • Teresa of Avila


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