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Definition of Sufferings
1. suffering [n] - See also: suffering
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sufferings
Literary usage of Sufferings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1817)
"... wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the month of August, 1815; yith an
Account of the sufferings of her surviving Officers and Crew, who were, ..."
2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"fort, strengthen, and encourage them; having a true sense of their sufferings
upon my spirit, and a sympathizing with them therein. ..."
3. The Jewish Temple and the Christian Church: A Series of Discourses on the by Robert William Dale (1871)
"IN the second half of this chapter, the connexion between the sufferings of the
Lord Jesus and ... The reality of His sufferings is of infinite importance, ..."
4. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"Time would undoubtedly abate somewhat of his sufferings, but still it was a sort
of thing which he never could get entirely the better of; ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1871)
"Celsus reproaches the Christians with holding their assemblies in secret, on
account of the fear inspired by their sufferings, "for when you are arrested ..."
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