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Webster 1913 Edition
Pains
Pains
(pānz)
, Noun.
Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; – plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
And all my
pains
is sorted to no proof. Shakespeare
The
pains
they had taken was very great. Clarendon.
The labored earth your
pains
have sowed and tilled. Dryden.
Definition 2024
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English
Noun
pains
- plural of pain
- (used in plural) Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
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Verb
pains
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of pain
Derived terms
- be at pains
- take pains