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travaileth

travaileth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of travail.

Meaning of travail

Verb

travail (third-person singular simple present travails, present participle travailing, simple past and past participle travailed)

  1. To toil.
    • [A]ll slothful persons, which will not travail for their livings, do the will of the devil.1552, Hugh Latimer, Fourth Sermon on the Lord's Prayer, Preached before Lady Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk
  2. To go through the labor of childbirth.
    • A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe, be cause her houre is come: but as sone as she is delivered off her chylde she remembreth no moare her anguysshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John

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Origin of travaileth

From travail + -eth.

Questions about travaileth

What is travaileth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Travaileth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of travail.

Words near travaileth in the dictionary

  1. Travaglia
  2. Travaglio
  3. travail
  4. travailed
  5. travailest
  6. travaileth
  7. travailing
  8. travailings
  9. travailous
  10. travails
  11. travailsome

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