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Pains vs Travail - What's the difference?

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Pains is a related term of travail.


As nouns the difference between pains and travail

is that pains is while travail is (archaic) arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.

As verbs the difference between pains and travail

is that pains is (pain) while travail is to toil.

pains

English

Noun

(head)
  • (used in plural) Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
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    Verb

    (head)
  • (pain)

    • Derived terms

    * be at pains * take pains

    Anagrams

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    travail

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
  • * Hooker
    • As everything of price, so this doth require travail .
  • *, II.20:
  • *:Travell and pleasure, most unlike in nature, are notwithstanding followed together by a kind of I wot not what natural conjunction.
  • * 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 38:
    • He had thought of making a destiny for himself, through laborious and untiring travail .
  • Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
  • (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
  • (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To toil.
  • * Latimer
    • slothful persons which will not travail for their livings
  • To go through the labor of childbirth.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XIV:
    • A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe, be cause her houre is come: but as sone as she is delivered off her chylde she remembreth no moare her anguysshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde.