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Definition of Take pains
1. Verb. Try very hard to do something.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take Pains
Literary usage of Take pains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1846)
"Chr. They are idle ; they love not to take pains ; up-hill way is unpleasant to
them. ... take pains ..."
2. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"LABOR, take pains or TROUBLE, USE ENDEAVOR. Labor, in Latin labor, toil. To take
pains is to expose one's self to pains (see PAIN); and to take the trouble ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... to take pains ; for which he was heartily sorry, but could not help it ; •which,
he [Gerard] said, he thought was a great reproach and scandal upon the ..."
4. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"One successful piece renders a man at the same time rich and celebrated ; and,
if you take pains, you will succeed."—" I do not want ardour," replied I ..."
5. Critical and Exegetical Hand-book to the Epistle to the Romans by Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (1884)
"... did he take pains to put it in a form which corresponds, not with this phrase,
but with the other ? The course adopted might, at the least, ..."
6. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1895)
"He was a good citizen who was willing to take pains. The danger of America to-day,
especially the danger of our American cities, is in the apathy and ..."
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