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Definition of Pained
1. Adjective. Hurt or upset. "Face had a pained and puzzled expression"
Definition of Pained
1. Adjective. In pain, especially in an emotional sense. ¹
2. Verb. (past of ''pain'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pained
1. pain [v] - See also: pain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pained
Literary usage of Pained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"... Gwendolen having flattered him on his enviable immobility of countenance ;
and, at first a little pained and jealous at her comradeship with Rex, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Agnes Herbert's sweet, tired lace positively pained me. She rose to obey, smiling
and silent. It was the silence about her which was so pitiful. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Your potent mercy may release. frier. that just before had been is much pained
by die Pleasure arose in those very parts of Wi kg feller. ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1921)
"Logan County v. United States, luí) US 255, 201 [IS Sup. Ct. Stil, 42 L. Ed.
737]. If the plaintiff pained any small advantage by the chance, it certainly ..."