Plural of agony

Forms of agony

Agonies in a sentence

• Joe Christmas (Light in August), Nancy Mannigoe (Requiem for a Nun), and the Corporal (A Fable) endure Titanlike agonies with Christlike meekness and fortitude.1959 spring, C. N. Stavrou, “Ambiguity in Faulkner’s Affirmation”, in The Personalist: An International Review of Philosophy, Religion…. From the entry Titanlike
• And that sense of security is worth more than a thousand of the temperamental ecstasies and agonies that are the appanage of hard-up youth.1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company. From the entry apanage
• In his enormously affecting play Equus, Peter Shaffer uses horses as a Christ symbol and the “sharp chains” in the horses’ mouths as a metaphor for Christ’s agonies.1981, Bennett M. Berger, “Appendix: Ethnographic Methods”, in The Survival of a Counterculture: Ideological Work and Everyday Life Among…. From the entry equicidal
• Nevertheless, from my own agonies of the first few months, after which I did not miss smoking at all, I could appreciate the need of others.1961, Peter Baker, Time out of life, page 51. From the entry baron

Meaning of agony

1. noun Extreme pain or anguish.
2. noun The sufferings of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (often capitalized).
3. noun Violent contest or striving.

Full definition of agony

More about agony

• Meaning of agony
• Synonyms of agony
• Agony in a sentence
• Agony in Tamil
• Agony in Marathi
• Agony in Urdu
• Agony in Bengali

Questions about the plural of agony

What is the plural of agony?

The plural of agony is agonies.

Is agony countable?

Agony is a countable and uncountable noun.