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toils /tɔɪlz /plural noun literaryUsed in reference to a situation regarded as a trap: Henry had become caught in the toils of his own deviousness...- Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
- Yet the question remains whether grace - amazing or otherwise - will be enough to carry the church once again through the ‘dangers, toils and snares’ bemoaned in that old hymn.
- In the throes of these catastrophes the world urgently needs a new reformation, but one inflamed by love in action, rather than one caught in the toils of humanist fundamentalism.
OriginEarly 16th century (denoting a net into which a hunted quarry is driven): plural of toil, from Old French toile 'net, trap' (see toile). |