All 8 Uses of
ordeal
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- The evidence response team from the Dallas field office revealed a dim reflection of Susan's ordeal during the four days she'd spent with her captor.†
Chpt 4 *ordeal = very difficult or painful experience
- He now knew with very little uncertainty that at the end of this ordeal, Bethany would be either dead or fatherless, and he was surprised by the pain he felt at the latter possibility.†
Chpt 7
- He'd rehearsed his words a dozen times through the night and had decided that he would start with an explanation of his ordeal before expressing his new outlook on both her and Bethany.†
Chpt 10
- He was too distracted by his own loss to focus on his ordeal in the desert, Ricki thought, swiveling the leg that hung over her knee.†
Chpt 13
- Few men have endured the kind of ordeal you faced in the desert, not to mention the divorce.†
Chpt 15
- In fact, listening to them explain the fifteen-minute ordeal, one would think that Ryan was a sympathetic character in all of this.†
Chpt 21
- We don't have enough evidence to determine if he's an original or simply copying BoneMan due to his ordeal in the desert.†
Chpt 28
- The class members began to suffer psychological breaks as soon as six hours into the ordeal.†
Chpt 33
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.