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paine¹

noun paines

  1. obsolete Obsolete spelling of pain Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scho

Paine²

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proper noun Pain · Payne

  1. An English surname, of Norman derivation, meaning someone who lived outside of a city (see Latin pagus). Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me."

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@misc{paine_2026,
  title = {paine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/paine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}