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ordeal
[ awr-deel, -dee-uhl, awr-deel ]
noun
- any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- a primitive form of trial to determine guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to fire, poison, or other serious danger, the result being regarded as a divine or preternatural judgment.
ordeal
/ ɔːˈdiːl /
noun
- a severe or trying experience
- history a method of trial in which the guilt or innocence of an accused person was determined by subjecting him to physical danger, esp by fire or water. The outcome was regarded as an indication of divine judgment
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of ordeal1
Example Sentences
After dragging it behind him with both hands, he smashes it through the rotted wood of the locked door and frees the girl, whom players of the first Little Nightmares will recognize as Six, the girl in the yellow raincoat who survived her own ordeal.
Late as I was to a story unfolding under my nose, I was disappointed that the whole ordeal lacked any immediate drama.
The Rochester community is outraged by the ordeal and is calling for all officers involved to be terminated.
Though Democrats seemed to be the most vocal during the ordeal, several Republicans also used Twitter to speak out.
While the quick action represents a victory for San Diegans’ civil rights, there are many troubling questions surrounding the ordeal that have not yet been answered – any maybe never will.
This is a new version of Catman, his past is yet to be told, but an ordeal made him not just badass, but flawed, deeply flawed.
Every visit to a hospital is an ordeal but for those who cannot pay for private care the experience is a horror show.
At no time during his ordeal was Turing able to publicly reveal the far greater secret that had framed his life since 1940.
Yet the entire ordeal opened up so many new possibilities, both for Dr. Grenci and those who followed her case.
“The whole ordeal gave me a thicker skin,” she said, reflecting on the incident.
So she did ask, though it was a great ordeal to make up her mind to do it; and they gave my mother a thousand francs.
They will try to compel you to confession; and, though you are blameless, you will suffer the cruelest ordeal of transgression.
But today—after that terrible ordeal, she felt as if life held little for her, that she was now unfit to perform any womanly duty.
It seems that there must have been some supernatural power of support to have sustained children under so awful an ordeal.
More than once she resolved to tell her father her true feelings, but shrank from the ordeal.
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