What is painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden. -- Pain"ful*ly, adv. -- Pain"ful*ness, n called?
painful — Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden. -- Pain"ful*ly, adv. -- Pain"ful*ness, n. (Webster's 1913.)
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