tribulation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tribulation	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tribulation n an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague" Synonym(s): trial, tribulation, visitation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tribulation \Trib`ula"tion\, n. [OE. tribulacium, F. tribulation, L. tribulatio, from tribulare to press, afflict, fr. tribulum a thrashing sledge, akin to terere, tritum, to rub. See {Trite}.] That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction. When tribulation* or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. --Matt. xiii. 21. In the world ye shall have tribulation. --John. xvi. 33.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tribulation trouble or affiction of any kind (Deut. 4:30; Matt. 13:21; 2 Cor. 7:4). In Rom. 2:9 "tribulation and anguish" are the penal sufferings that shall overtake the wicked. In Matt. 24:21, 29, the word denotes the calamities that were to attend the destruction of Jerusalem.