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Definition of Throe
1. Noun. Severe spasm of pain. "The throes of childbirth"
2. Noun. Hard or painful trouble or struggle. "A country in the throes of economic collapse"
Definition of Throe
1. n. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
2. v. i. To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
3. v. t. To put in agony.
Definition of Throe
1. Noun. severe spasm of pain, especially near the moment of death ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Throe
1. a violent spasm of pain [n -S]
Medical Definition of Throe
1. 1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. "Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes." (Milton) 2. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow. Origin: OE. Rowe, rave, AS. Rea a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel. Ra a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. AS. Reowian to suffer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Throe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"If we shift the origin to the point a, o, e the first throe quantities are
unaltered, but tbe couples become L'-L + cY-iZ M'-M + aZ-eX N'-N + iX-aY. ..."
2. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"... a majority of all the Senators elected voting in favor thereof, and throe-fifths
being present, as follows: FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE 51 Ordered, ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"133-48; Strutt'e Manners, Customs, &c. of tho Inhabitant« of England, ii. 127 ;
throe Books of Poly- dore Vergil's Engl. Hist. ed. Ellis (Camden Soc. ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"Noyes' machine for putting metallic molding« upon combe was ID use more than
throe years before the date of plaintiff's invention for attaching sheet metal ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"On each enervate string they taught fhe note* To pant, or tremble through an
eunuch's throe* r- He that designedly use; ambiguities, ought to be looked on ..."
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