LekhoriLekhoriCarefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.
The application of careful and attentive effort.
I esteeme Bocace his Decameron, Rabelais, and the kisses of John the second (if they may be placed under this title) worth the paines-taking to reade them.
From pains + taking; see take pains. The /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋ/ pronunciation which dominates in the United States suggests a reanalysis of the word as pain + staking.
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