labour under the delusion, illusion, misapprehension, etc.

Examples of labouring

labouring

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

But somehow the idea took hold among the labouring poor that the parson, per se, was their sworn enemy.
Back in 1973, there was no suggestion that the woman was ever labouring under any kind of ideological false consciousness.
For the sixteenth century, the share of craftsmen in the labouring population is hard to measure.
Living standards for the labouring classes declined sharply in the sixteenth century, and remained low in the seventeenth century.
The previous section outlined some of the problems inherent in defining the amorphous but substantial 'labouring' section of the population.
The implementation of the new legislation hit labouring families hard.
As a result, said one area farmer, ' a very large proportion of the labouring classes never take any other food than potatoes'.
In this way, the labouring body and its role in the act of construction was politicised.
Few data are available for its use in preterm, emergency, labouring or hypertensive patients, or in cases where there is preexisting fetal compromise.
The trends in stature suggest that the living standards of the labouring classes gradually deteriorated from the 1870s.
For many in the working classes, the auto represented liberation for the labouring man and his family, or even a tool in the revolutionary struggle.
The sufferings of the survivors, especially of the widow of the labouring classes, are often protracted to a fatal extent.
These women were generally younger maidservants and labouring women in their twenties and thirties.
This garment illustrates items of popular fashion, as worn by middling and labouring women.
The use of an immature, uneducated workforce labouring for little monetary reward and accorded low status is worrying.
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