travailous

adjective

1. Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome.

   archaic, literary

   […] of my redemption thence, / And portance in travailous history,

Where it comes from

From Middle English travailous (“laborious, wearisome”), from Anglo-Norman travaillous, Old French travaillos (“tiring, painful”). Equivalent to travail + -ous.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry travailous (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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