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- Dictionaryor·deal/ôrˈdēl/
noun
- 1. a painful or horrific experience, especially a protracted one: "the ordeal of having to give evidence"
- 2. 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: historical "ordeals conducted in the twelfth century"
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