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Tribulation   /trˌɪbjəlˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Tribulation

noun
1.
An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event.  Synonyms: trial, visitation.  "Life is full of tribulations" , "A visitation of the plague"






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"Tribulation" Quotes from Famous Books



... make beauty superfluous and ugly;" "Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation." In this last sentence, the object is made the subject by being passive, and the words italicized are still complements. Like all the complements in this list, they are adjuncts of the object, and, at the same time, complements of ...
— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell

... great deal. They require continual progress from glory to glory. But this progress can only be made amid self-denial and cross-taking. "Whoso taketh not up his cross," daily and hourly, is not a true disciple of the great Teacher. It is even through "much tribulation" only, that we can enter into the kingdom of our ...
— The Young Woman's Guide • William A. Alcott

... kindest friend, my second mother. I will in all things be guided by your counsel and moulded by your will. No, oh no, I would not for worlds rob my mother of the glorious inheritance purchased by a Saviour's blood. But tell me one thing,—must we all pass through tribulation before entering the kingdom of heaven? Must we all travel with bleeding feet the thorny path of suffering, before being admitted into the presence ...
— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz

... fierce tribulation Endure for a space, Yet God! our salvation! We gain by Thy grace, At end of life's fever, Bliss passing man's ken; There to praise Thee ...
— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon

... pray out loud to my God in peace. But now! why, if I prayed to my God in the streets of Amiens they would think me a damned lunatic!" I can understand her very human feeling at that time—people who had run away from the city in its agony returned when its tribulation was over, and claimed it as their own again when the calm of evening had come; while she, Sister Rose, had borne the burden and heat of the day. But this feeling soon left her, and she worked whole-heartedly ...
— An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 • William Orpen


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