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Middle English
Etymology
From Old French peinible.
Adjective
penyble
- painstaking
c1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, Clerk's Tale:The moore trewe if þat it were possible She was to hym in loue and moore penyble.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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