Definition of Ordeal

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Ordeal

An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.

Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.

Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.

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Ordeal Quotations

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Jim Carrey

I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.
Paula Abdul

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
Jacques Derrida

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus

The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.
Susan Smith

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.
Margaret Sanger

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.
Liam Neeson

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.
Maria Mitchell

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
Steve Buyer

Ordeal Translations

ordeal in German is Feuerprobe, Geduldsprobe
ordeal in Swedish is eldprov

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