painfulness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English peynfulnes, peynfulnesse, equivalent to painful + -ness.

"O, it makes my heart ache--I mean so much painfulness for every one concerned!" — Robert Orange: Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange, John Oliver Hobbes
It was Penrod, tactfully withdrawing from what promised to be a family scene of unusual painfulness. — Penrod, Booth Tarkington
Can I forget from how much mourning painfulness With diamond in window-glass she grav’d “Erona die, and end this ugly painfulness”? — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Philip Sidney

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