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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
travail .
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Examples
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For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
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For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
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Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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When they cry peace and all is safe, then shall their sorrows begin as the pangs of woman that travaileth with child, and then shall he destroy them and deliver thee unto the glorious praise of his mercy and truth.
Confirmation of Election speech for Rt Revd John Sentamu, St Mary-le-Bow, London 2005
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For I feel it, I feel it — infinite love is suffering too — yea, in the fulness of knowledge it suffers, it yearns, it mourns; and that is a blind self-seeking which wants to be freed from the sorrow wherewith the whole creation groaneth and travaileth.
Adam Bede 2004
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And it healeth him that is lunatic, and them that the fiend pursueth or travaileth.
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Now only travaileth the mountain of the human future.
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