travailing

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Verb[edit]

travailing

  1. present participle and gerund of travail

Noun[edit]

travailing (plural travailings)

  1. 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.