travail, travel (n.) Old form(s): trauaile
suffering, torment, distress
CE V.i.401[Abbess to Duke] Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail
Luc.1543[Lucrece to herself, of a painting of Sinon] As if with grief or travel he had fainted
MA IV.i.211[Friar to Leonato, of the plan to save Hero] on this travail look for greater birth [also: sense 1, 5]
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