ordeals
Meaning of ordeals
- a very unpleasant and prolonged experience.
the ordeal of having to give evidence
- an ancient test of guilt or innocence by subjection of the accused to severe pain, survival of which was taken as divine proof of innocence.
ordeals conducted in the twelfth century
ordeal by fire
Old English ordāl, ordēl, of Germanic origin; related to German urteilen ‘give judgement’, from a base meaning ‘share out’. The word is not found in Middle English (except once in Chaucer's Troilus ); modern use of ordeal (sense 2) began in the late 16th century, whence ordeal (sense 1) (mid 17th century).
Information about ordeals
- It is a name.
- The singular form of ordeals is: ordeal.
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Hyphenation of ordeals
or-deals
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- ordeals is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
ordeals synonyms
Meaning a person, experience, or situation that tests a person's endurance or forbearance:
Meaning a state of great trouble or suffering:
Meaning a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something, especially before it is taken into widespread use:
Meaning a frightening or unpleasant dream:
Meaning emotional shock following a stressful event or a physical injury, which may lead to long-term neurosis:
Meaning a place regarded in various religions as a spiritual realm of evil and suffering, often traditionally depicted as a place of perpetual fire beneath the earth where the wicked are punished after death:
Meaning a cause or source of great distress or discomfort:
Meaning difficulty or problems:
Meaning the state or condition of being difficult:
Meaning the action or practice of inflicting severe pain or suffering on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something:
Meaning a cause of severe suffering:
Meaning extreme physical or mental suffering:
Anagrams of ordeals
Words that rhyme with ordeals
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