Tribulation

Noun

 * 1) Any adversity; a trying period or event.
 * 2) * 27 June 1944, Herbert Hoover, Speech in Chicago, Illinois to the 23rd Republican national convention.
 * It is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Thesaurus
adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, blight, bummer, calvary, care, cross, crucible, curse, difficulties, difficulty, downer, fiery ordeal, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, irritation, oppression, ordeal, persecution, plight, predicament, pressure, rigor, sea of troubles, stress, stress of life, trial, trials and tribulations, trouble, troubles, vale of tears, vicissitude, visitation

Etymology
tribulation: < tribulacion: <  tribulatio: < tribulare: < tribulum: < terere:; see trite.

Translations

 * Dutch: beproeving
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