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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pains \Pains\, n.
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 1.6 [wn]:
pains
n : an effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: {striving}, {nisus},
{strain}]
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