ordeals in English

noun

1

a painful or horrific experience, especially a protracted one.

the ordeal of having to give evidence

synonyms: unpleasant experience, painful experience, trial, tribulation, nightmare, trauma, hell (on earth), misery, trouble, difficulty, torture, torment, agony

2

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.

Those presented might then be put to the ordeal to ascertain their guilt or innocence.

noun

• unpleasant experience, painful experience, trial, tribulation, nightmare, trauma, hell (on earth), misery, trouble, difficulty, torture, torment, agony
• trial by ordeal

Use "ordeals" in a sentence

1. Atoning Dragoon Kain represents Kain as he appears during the ending of Final Fantasy IV, when he removes his helmet and begins his training at Mount Ordeals

2. (Isaiah 48:10, 11) The trialsome ordeals —as in the “furnace of affliction”— that Jehovah has allowed to come upon his people have tested and refined them, revealing what is in their hearts.

3. To understand PTSD, we first need to understand how the brain processes a wide range of ordeals, including the death of a loved one, domestic violence, injury or illness, abuse, rape, war, car accidents, and natural disasters.

4. Or how should he have hope of Your bounty in freeing him from it, while You Abandonest him within it? So how can I endure the tribulations of the next world and gext great ordeals that occur within it? I have stretched forth my hands therefore, by Thy honour, respond to my supplication and let me attain my wishes and, by Thy bounty, frustrate