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Definitions of ordeals in various dictionaries:
noun - a severe or trying experience
noun - a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control
noun - a severely difficult or painful experience
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| Painful trials |
| Trials |
| Baptisms of fire |
| Difficult situations |
| Hard times |
| Difficult experiences |
| Periods in prison, e.g. |
| Baptisms by fire |
| Trying experiences |
| Testing experiences |
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| Plural form of ordeal. |
| a very unpleasant and prolonged experience. |
| A very unpleasant and prolonged experience. |
| An ancient test of guilt or innocence by subjection of the accused to severe pain, survival of which was taken as divine proof of innocence. |
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Trial by ordeal was an ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused was determined by subjecting them to a painful, or at least an unpleasant, usually dangerous experience. The test was one of life or death, and the proof of innocence was survival. In some cases, the accused was considered innocent if they escaped injury or if their injuries healed. * In medieval Europe, like trial by combat, trial by ordeal was considered a judicium Dei (Latin:"judgement of God"): a procedure based on the premise that God would help the innocent by performing a miracle on his behalf. The practice has much earlier roots, attested to as far back as the Code of Hammurabi and the Code of Ur-Nammu. * In pre-modern society, the ordeal typically ranked along with the oath and witness accounts as the central means by which to reach a judicial verdict. Indeed, the term ordeal, Old English ordl, has the meaning of "judgment, verdict" (German Urteil, Dutch oordeel), from Proto-Germanic *u |