The Only Use of
ordeal
in
Tuck Everlasting
- Your terrible ordeal is as good as over, isn't it?
p. 75.9ordeal = difficult or painful experience
Definitions:
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(1)
(ordeal) a very difficult or painful experience
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, ordeal can refer to a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control. Escape or survival was usually taken as a sign of innocence.