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
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus
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
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
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
Jacques Derrida
I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.
Paula Abdul
The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.
Kieran Culkin
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
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
Brooks Atkinson
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
Zane Grey
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
William Manchester
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
Rene Cassin
I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.
Amber Frey
Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
Kamisese Mara
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
John Berryman
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
The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.
Susan Smith
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Ordeal Translations
ordeal in German is Feuerprobe, Geduldsprobe
ordeal in Swedish is eldprov
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