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a very difficult or painful experience
- It has afforded me, in the intervals of more urgent business, an unfailing, and constantly increasing source of interest; and it is not without a feeling of regret at the completion of my task, and a sincere diffidence as to its success, that I venture to submit the result of my labour to the ordeal of public criticism.Preface (14% in)
There are no more uses of "ordeal" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Edward).
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