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ordeal
English
Etymology
From Middle English ordel, ordal, from Medieval Latin ord?lium or its source Old English ord?l, ord?l (“ordeal, judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *u?dail? (“judgement”, literally “an out-dealing”), from *u?dailijan (“to deal out; dispense”), equivalent to or- +? deal.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Uurdeel (“judgement; verdict”), West Frisian oardiel (“judgement”), Dutch oordeel (“judgement, discretion”), Low German Oordeel (“judgement; verdict”), German Urteil (“judgement, verdict”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???di?l/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /???dil/
- Hyphenation: or?deal
- Rhymes: -i?l
Noun
ordeal (plural ordeals)
- A painful or trying experience.
- A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.
- The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean
Translations
See also
- trial by fire
Anagrams
- Laredo, Loader, Rodela, loader, reload
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sorrow
English
Etymology
From Middle English sorow, sorwe, from Old English sorg, from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surg? (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swerg?- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit ????????? (s??rk?ati, “worry”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?r'?, IPA(key): /?s????/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s??o?/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?s??o?/
- Rhymes: -????
Noun
sorrow (countable and uncountable, plural sorrows)
- (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
- August 28, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
- August 28, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47
- (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
sorrow (third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple past and past participle sorrowed)
- (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
- ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
- (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
Derived terms
- besorrow
Translations
References
- “sorrow” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "sorrow" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.
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