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Definition of Travailing
1. travail [v] - See also: travail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Travailing
Literary usage of Travailing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1882)
"... make such a submission as this I would let them pass ; viz : We do acknowledge
our Transgressions of the Law in travailing upon the Lord's Day, May, 13. ..."
2. The Diary of the Rev. Ralph Josselin, 1616-1683 by Ralph Josselin, Ernest Hockliffe (1908)
"... princes to ingage agst England ? but ye troubles of the world shall come on
them suddenly as paines of a travailing woman. Jan. 18. ..."
3. The Wisdom of the Apocalypse by Joshua Hall McIlvaine (1886)
"XXVII THE travailing WOMAN HER CHILD AND THE DRAGON THE CHURCH CHRIST AND SATAN
XII. l-lj In the preceding visions we have had fearful exhibitions of the ..."
4. Forty Days with the Master by Frederic Dan Huntington (1891)
"THE CREATION travailing IN PAIN. EVEN in the natural material world, a great army
of physical maladies come against us, and are too much for us. ..."
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