jan 1, 1642 - painful

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Of a person it was ‘painstaking’, a complimentary reference to the care and attention bestowed on a task. 1613 ‘free ... to serve in any office ... they having been long <i>industrous and painefull</i> members of the House’, Hull (YRS116/57); 1642 <i>oftentimes a painfull fellowe will not refuse to stooke after 7 or 8 sythes, if the binders will but doe soe much as throwe him in the sheaves</i>, Elmswell (DW56).

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