Ordeal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ORDEAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a severely difficult or painful experience
• a very unpleasant and prolonged experience
• an ancient test of guilt or innocence by subjection of the accused to severe pain, survival of which was taken as divine proof of innocence
• painful or difficult experience
• An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
• Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
• a severe or trying experience
• 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 was usually taken as a sign of innocence
ADJECTIVE:
• Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.

Words related to ORDEAL

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Words that contain ORDEAL

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How to use ORDEAL in a sentence

• The ordeal of looking on the dead body of her father had nerved her to carry through resolutely the task of discovering the author of the crime.
• And the whole ordeal may have given us an opportunity for renaissance.
• Fancy her seeing her father at last! It must have been an ordeal for her.
• This was an ordeal of a ride that tried the stuff the girl was made of.
• It was as much as each could do to maintain a conventional calmness through the terrible ordeal of such an introduction.
• Bactria was allowed to establish itself as an independent monarchy, without having to undergo the ordeal of a bloody struggle.
• Both these species of ordeal, though they equally appealed to God, yet went on different principles.
• In his nervous state the ordeal of meeting fresh friends seemed as great, indeed, as that involved in the remaining journey.
• He came, dry-eyed, through the ordeal, raging inwardly, but silent.
• The carefully packed plants survived the ordeal of a voyage of ten thousand miles.
• It would be interesting to know how many come out of the ordeal untouched by the taint of corruption.
• It is for the sake of God that I have received this ordeal.
• Yet is was a terrible ordeal, that half-hour when the family should have sat down to a table laden with food.
• They constitute the E-ser-e or ordeal beans of the negroes of Old Calabar, being administered to persons accused of witchcraft or other crimes.
• He had to nerve himself for the ordeal, as, in spite of assuring himself that there were no such things as ghosts, he was frightened.
• He, at least, was spared the unbeautifying effect of the ordeal upon his wife and sister.
• The ordeal lasted only about ten minutes, though it seemed a year, and then Mr.
• Only then did he begin effectively to realise her experiences and her achievement and her ordeal on the distant, romantic Clyde.
• When, after the endless ordeal of the aisle, she reached her place, Louis was not there.
• CHAPTER XVI THE ORDEAL The drawing-room was empty when he entered it, the windows standing flung wide to the night.
• It had been a severe ordeal to us, but it had proved in the most unmistakable manner the loyalty of the Kamchadal inhabitants of Milkova to the reigning family of Russia.
• I was caught in this great dramatic ordeal of America without any fault on my part.
• She was loath to have me away from her in this ordeal.
• The change had begun after the ordeal of the first morning.

Similar words containing ORDE without suffix al

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