travailousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

travailous (comparative more travailous, superlative most travailous)

1. (obsolete, now rare) Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, edited by Michael Neill, Othello, the Moor of Venice (Oxford World's Classics), Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 138–139, page 223:

     […] of my redemption thence, / And portance in travailous history,

     Suggested by Richard Proudfoot to be the correct interpretation of the First Folio's "trauellours historie", whereas other editions interpret it as "travel's" or "traveler's"

   • 1888, Charles M[ontagu] Doughty, chapter III, in Travels in Arabia Deserta, London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. & The Medici Society Limited, page 59:

     A pined and jaded man he was before his middle days, and unlikely to live to full age. Better his mother had been barren, than that her womb should have borne such a sorry travailous life!

参照

• “travailous, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Further reading

• “travailous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “travailous, adj.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.