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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pains \Pains\ (p[=a]nz), noun Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
And all my pains is sorted to no proof. --Shak.
The pains they had taken was very great. --Clarendon.
The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pains
noun: an effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: {striving}, {nisus}, {strain}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "pains": assiduity, assiduousness, diligence, effort, elbow grease, endeavor, energy, exertion, hard pull, industriousness, industry, long pull, might and main, muscle, nerve and sinew, painstaking, painstakingness, sedulousness, thoroughgoingness, thoroughness, trouble
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