ordeals
- plural of ordeal.
Example Sentences
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Ordeals, such as they are, tend to be minor and surmountable; notions that everything is lost amount of misunderstandings.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2024
Ordeals like Amanda Berry’s “are our gothic horror stories, our Bluebeards come to life,” and we often treat such events like sensational nightmares.
From Slate • May 11, 2013
Ordeals were seldom used, until the Gorkha family seized the government, since which they have become very frequent.
From An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Hamilton, Francis
Ordeals of this character occurred almost daily in the neighboring country, of course destroying numbers of innocent victims of cupidity or malice.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz
This way of Purgation is of the same nature with the old Ordeals of the Pagans.
From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton
