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Definition of Adversities
1. adversity [n] - See also: adversity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adversities
Literary usage of Adversities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta: A Contemporary Account of the by Eusebio Francisco Kino (1919)
"... OR NEW PHILIPPINES CHAPTER I. OF THE MANY adversities AND DELAYS OF THESE NEW
CONVERSIONS Since the adversities and tribulations of this world are among ..."
2. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"CHAPTER II HE IS SET UPON BY adversities, BUT HE SINGS A SONG The result of that
unpropitious interview was that Eustacia ..."
3. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by Benjamin and Thomas Kite (Firm)., William Sewel (1823)
"... consoling them in tribulations, and strengthening them in adversities,' &c.
Nay, so powerfully did God work in Gabriel ..."
4. Twentieth Century Negro Literature: Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital by Daniel Wallace Culp (1902)
"THE NEGRO'S adversities HELP HIM. BY PROF. JOSEPH D. BIBB, AM In this hour when
the sun is just beginning to climb the horizon of a new day in the life of ..."
5. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles, William Rishanger (1889)
"... faithfully adhered to the pope, who had made him a cardinal, in all his
adversities. The legate, although often warned to do so, refuses to return home. ..."
6. Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston (1901)
"... and rejoice in Thy mercy: for Thou hast considered my trouble ; Thou hast
known my soul in adversities. — Ps. xxxi. 7. NAY, all by Thee is ordered, ..."
7. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, James Murdock (1841)
"1. Flourishing state of the Socinians.—§ 2. Socinians at Altorf.—§ 3. adversities of
the Polish ... adversities ..."
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