All 3 Uses
ordeal
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- Lieutenant Pennel's ordeal was not yet over.†
Chpt 9. *ordeal = very difficult or painful experience
- Jack First recalled Ira as stoic and focused throughout the ordeal.†
Chpt 13.
- Ira learned to take refuge from such ordeals in his beloved bottle.†
Chpt 16.ordeals = very difficult or painful experiences
Definitions:
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(ordeal) a very difficult or painful experience
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(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.