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1toil — I. /tɔɪl / (say toyl) noun 1. hard and continuous work; exhausting labour or effort. 2. a laborious task. 3. Obsolete battle; strife; struggle. –verb (i) 4. to engage in severe and continuous work; labour arduously. 5. to move or travel with… …
2slavery — /slay veuh ree, slayv ree/, n. 1. the condition of a slave; bondage. 2. the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution. 3. a state of subjection like that of a slave: He was kept in slavery by drugs. 4. severe toil; drudgery. [1545 55; SLAVE… …
3Travail — Trav ail (?; 48), n. [F. travail; cf. Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have been… …
4travail — I. v. n. 1. Labor with pain, toil. 2. Labor (in childbirth), be in labor, be in travail. II. n. 1. Labor with pain, severe toil. 2. Childbirth, parturition, labor, delivery, bringing forth …
5slavery — slav•er•y [[t]ˈsleɪ və ri, ˈsleɪv ri[/t]] n. 1) the condition of a slave; bondage 2) the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution 3) a state of subjection like that of a slave 4) severe toil; drudgery • Etymology: 1545–55 syn: slavery,… …
6hardship — /ˈhadʃɪp / (say hahdship) noun 1. a condition that bears hard upon one; severe toil, trial, oppression, or need. 2. an instance of this; something hard to bear. –phrase 3. impose hardship on (or upon), to cause to suffer privations …
7slavery — /ˈsleɪvəri/ (say slayvuhree) noun 1. the condition of a slave; bondage. 2. the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution. 3. a state of subjection like that of a slave. 4. severe toil; drudgery …
8biblical literature — Introduction four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha. The Old… …
9Reductions of Paraguay — • Jesuit campaign to convert the natives of Paraguay Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Reductions of Paraguay Reductions of Paraguay …
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