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painfulness|ˈpeɪnfʊlnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being painful.
1. The quality of being fraught or attended with pain; distressingness. Also in passive aspect: The condition of suffering pain; distress, affliction.
c1485Digby Myst. iii. 608 O lord! wo xall put me from þis peynfulnesse? 1526Tindale 1 John iv. 18 For fear hath paynfulnes. 1662South Serm. I. 27 No Custom can make the Painfulness of a Debauch easy. 1777J. Richardson Dissert. East. Nations 2 To soften the extreme painfulness of incessant labour. 1884Pae Eustace 79 Forget the painfulness of our situation, and think of its romance.
2. The quality of causing trouble or labour; difficulty, troublesomeness, irksomeness. Obs. or arch.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 230 For the vncertainty of the same, and also for the paynfulnes and tedyousnes therof. 1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 32 Ordinary labour with festivall services to God can neither easily concurre, because painfulnesse and joy are opposite, nor decently.
3. The quality of taking pains; laboriousness, careful industry, painstaking. Obs. or arch.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. x, In theim which be either gouernours or capitaynes..Paynfulnesse, named in latyne Tollerantia, is wonderfull commendable. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxvii. §13 To testifie loue by painefulnesse in Gods seruice. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. i. ii. 3 A Skill in Surgery is obtained with great painfulness. |