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Meaning of travailous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome.

archaic, obsolete

Examples

“[…] of my redemption thence, / And portance in travailous history,”
“A pined and jaded man he was before his middle days, and unlikely to live⟳ to full age. Better his mother had been barren, than that her womb should have⟳ borne such a sorry travailous life!”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Travancorean travel-size travel-sized traveled traveling travellable

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