Sains vs Pains - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between sains and pains

is that sains is (sain) while pains is (pain).

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(en verb)

(archaic) To make the sign of the cross on or over something or someone.

To make the sign of the cross.

(archaic) To bless, to keep from evil influence.

1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :

The child was sained then. Fir candles were lighted and whirled round the bed in which mother and infant lay.

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

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.

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(pain)

* be at pains * take pains

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