"painsong" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: painsongs [plural]
Etymology: From pain + song. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|pain|song}} pain + song Head templates: {{en-noun}} painsong (plural painsongs)
  1. (poetic, rare) A cry or feeling of pain and distress. Tags: poetic, rare
    Sense id: en-painsong-en-noun-4i~OfCxW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1993, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, These are My Rivers, New Directions, →ISBN, page 100:",
          "text": "Love's true willsong / Love's low plainsong / Too sweet painsong",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Dennis Kolb, Never Take Advice from an Unscarred Man, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:",
          "text": "I tried to keep my hand high to stop my strong heart from pumping me dry, while I worked on the second stanza of my painsong. Nature had been kind enough to pop the finger like a ripe grape to take the pressure off.",
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        {
          "ref": "2021, Adam Levin, Bubblegum, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 9:",
          "text": "The rugburn became increasingly inflamed, and, through trembling lips, which were pursed as if to whistle, my cure began singing its sublime, plaintive painsong.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Linda LeGarde Grover, The Sky Watched, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I'm undersized and quiet, mousy you think / and it irritates you to see me puffing my mouse cheeks / while I read at my desk. You don't know it's my teeth / my teeth a painsong accompanying what I do",
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          "text": "I'm undersized and quiet, mousy you think / and it irritates you to see me puffing my mouse cheeks / while I read at my desk. You don't know it's my teeth / my teeth a painsong accompanying what I do",
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