toilworn

[ toil-wawrn, -wohrn ]

adjective

1. worn worn by toil:

   toilworn hands.

2. worn worn out or aged by toil:

   a toilworn farmer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of toilworn¹

First recorded in 1745–55; toil ¹ + worn

Example Sentences

Lo, the stone was riven in sunder, The water gushed forth abundantly, The congregation drank and their cattle, And the wanderers laved their toilworn feet.

From Project Gutenberg

Minute after minute for unbroken hours, the hands succeeded one another there,—old, knotted, toilworn hands, the small, brown hands of children, jewelled hands of delicate ladies, and often, as now, the groping hand of blindness, with childish fingers helping it to find those mystical depressions in the agate.

From Project Gutenberg

But as that abject condition of toilworn bondage mainly entails and fosters ignorance, by allowing the laborer no leisure for the cultivation of his mind, it has ever been cherished as the safeguard of "Church and State" despotism.

From Project Gutenberg

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life—the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toilworn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

From Project Gutenberg

It must be long yet before I can help them effectually, and meantime the bright youth of my little Els�, and the very life of our toilworn patient mother, will be wearing away.

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