Exaction vs Tribulation - What's the difference?
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The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.
That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.
Any adversity; a trying period or event.
* 1535 , , Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation , ch. 6:
* 1847 , , Omoo , ch. 11:
* 1944 June 27, , Speech in Chicago, Illinois to the 23rd Republican National Convention:
* 2009 Sept. 24, , "
Exaction is a related term of tribulation.
As a noun exaction
is the act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.As a proper noun tribulation is
(christianity) a relatively short period of time before the second coming where believers will experience worldwide persecution and be purified and strengthened by it.exaction
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(en noun)- For the blessed apostle himself in his sore tribulation', praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God (in a manner) that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that '''tribulation''' to strengthen him was far better for him than to take that ' tribulation from him.
- Baltimore's tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night.
- It is youth who must inherit the tribulation , the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Kristina'': A New Musical from the ABBA Guys," ''New York Times (retrieved 12 March 2014):
- Essentially stoic, passive characters, Kristina and the others triumph by surviving — by outliving their plagues and tribulations .
