英语词汇“ordeal”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

or·deal

(ôr-dēl)

1. A difficult or painful experience, especially one that severely tests character or endurance. See Synonyms at trial.

2. A method of trial in which the accused was subjected to pain or danger as a means of invoking God's intercession, with the outcome regarded as revealing a divine determination of guilt or innocence.

[Alteration (influenced by DEAL¹) of Middle English ordal, trial by ordeal, from Old English ordāl; see dail- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

单词	ordeal
释义	or·deal (ôr-dēl) n. 1. A difficult or painful experience, especially one that severely tests character or endurance. See Synonyms at trial. 2. A method of trial in which the accused was subjected to pain or danger as a means of invoking God's intercession, with the outcome regarded as revealing a divine determination of guilt or innocence. [Alteration (influenced by DEAL¹) of Middle English ordal, trial by ordeal, from Old English ordāl; see dail- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
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