tribulation
/ˌtɹɪbjʊˈleɪ̯ʃən/
tribulation means (A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them. It carries an Arena rating of 1581, earned across 66 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, tribulation ranks #614 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #958 of 17,104 for Most Storied Words, #1,136 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #1,339 of 17,131 for Scariest Words.
tribulation is pronounced /ˌtɹɪbjʊˈleɪ̯ʃən/.
Why “tribulation” is a great word
TRIBULATION — [Noun] A state of great trouble, suffering, or adversity. From Middle English tribulacioun, from Old French tribulacion, from Latin tribulātiōnem (stem of tribulātiō, meaning 'distress, affliction'), from tribulāre ('to press, oppress'), from tribulum ('a threshing sledge', a tool for separating grain from chaff). First attested in English c. 1225. Unlike an "ordeal," a discrete and often ritualized test, or a "hardship," the objective condition of privation, tribulation is the prolonged, internal experience of being ground down. It is the relentless pressure of a chronic illness, the slow erosion of hope during a season of loss, and the rasp of financial dread through years of scarcity—the brutal, often silent process that separates, in the end, what is essential from what is merely chaff.
Etymology
Proprialization from tribulation.
name
- (A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them.
noun
- Any adversity; a trying period or event.
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