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Webster 1828 Edition


Travailing

TRAV'AILING

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ppr.
Laboring with toil; laboring in childbirth. Is.42.

Definition 2024


travailing

travailing

English

Verb

travailing

  1. present participle of travail

Noun

travailing (plural travailings)

  1. The process of undergoing travails or exertions.
    • 1850, James McCosh, The Method of the Divine Government
      How universal, too, the restlessness, how deep the groanings and travailings of the human race.