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tribulations

tribulations is the plural of tribulation.

Meaning of tribulation

Noun

tribulation (countable and uncountable, plural tribulations)

  1. Any adversity; a trying period or event.
    • What wit have we (poor fools) to wit what will serve us, when the blessed Apostle himself in his sore tribulation, praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God in a manner that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that...1534, Thomas More, chapter VI, in A Dialoge of Comfort against Tribulacion, Made by Syr Thomas More Knyght, and Set Foorth by the Name of an Hūgariē, not before this Time Imprinted. B.L., London: In...

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Phrases with tribulations

Questions about tribulations

What is tribulations the plural of?
Tribulations is the plural of tribulation.

Words near tribulations in the dictionary

  1. tribulate
  2. tribulated
  3. tribulates
  4. tribulating
  5. tribulation
  6. tribulations
  7. tribulin
  8. tribuloid
  9. tribulosaponin
  10. tribulosin
  11. tribulosis

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