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# {{plural of|pain}}

  

# {{plural of|pain}}
 

# ''(used in plural)'' Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.

  

# ''(used in plural)'' Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
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#*{{quote-book|year=1918|author={{w|W. B. Maxwell}}|chapter=22
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|title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1097634W The Mirror and the Lamp]
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|passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.{{...}}Next day she{{...}}tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no '''pains''' to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.}}
   
 

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===Verb===

Latest revision as of 00:41, 1 November 2013

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pains

  1. Plural form of pain
  2. (used in plural) Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, The Mirror and the Lamp:
      Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.

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pains

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of pain

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Noun[edit]

pains m pl

  1. Plural form of pain

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