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Hardship   /hˈɑrdʃɪp/   Listen
Hardship

noun
1.
A state of misfortune or affliction.  Synonyms: adversity, hard knocks.  "A life of hardship"
2.
Something hard to endure.  Synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity.
3.
Something that causes or entails suffering.  "The many hardships of frontier life"





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"Hardship" Quotes from Famous Books



... attendants is by a packthread bell-rope suspended in the sitting-room. From the bed-rooms we have to raise the windows and our voices, and bring them by power of lungs, or help ourselves—which, I thank God, was never yet a hardship to me. ...
— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation - 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble
... and yours, Bartle! If it was in my power, I take God to witness, I'd make up wid a willin' heart for all the hardship and misfortune my father ...
— Fardorougha, The Miser - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... blood dripping from another point. His ear, moreover, was very sore and began to swell rapidly. One less enduring would have given up, but he had a splendid frame, toughened by incessant hardship. And, above all, enclosed within that frame was a lion heart. He shook his head slightly, because a buzzing was going on there, but in a ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler
... other, as though to punish herself for her own falsehood. He would not let her starve. He would get some place for her as a governess. And she was not in the least afraid of starvation. It would be sweeter for her to work with any kind of hardship around her, and to be allowed to think of John Gordon with her heart free, than to become the comfortable mistress of his house. She would not admit the plea of starvation even to herself. She wanted to be free of him, and she ...
— An Old Man's Love • Anthony Trollope
... from the Emperor of Turkey. Fighting for the Queen, and bad pay she gave him. He never knew what was the war for, unless it might be for diminishing the population. We saw in the paper a few years ago there was a great deal of money collected for soldiers that had gone through hardship in the war, and we wrote to the War Office asking some of it for him. But they wrote back that there were so many young men crippled in the Boer war there was nothing to be spared for the old. My husband used to be saying the Queen ...
— The Kiltartan History Book • Lady I. A. Gregory


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