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Travail vs Travailing - What's the difference?

travail | travailing |

As nouns the difference between travail and travailing

is that travail is arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship while travailing is the process of undergoing travails or exertions.

As verbs the difference between travail and travailing

is that travail is to toil while travailing is present participle of travail.

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.

    travailing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of undergoing travails or exertions.
  • * 1850 , James McCosh, The Method of the Divine Government
    • How universal, too, the restlessness, how deep the groanings and travailings of the human race.