Noun

(en noun)

Any adversity; a trying period or event.

* 1535 , , Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation , ch. 6:

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.

* 1847 , , Omoo , ch. 11:

Baltimore's tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night.

* 1944 June 27, , Speech in Chicago, Illinois to the 23rd Republican National Convention:

It is youth who must inherit the tribulation , the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

* 2009 Sept. 24, , " 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 .

Noun

(en noun)

A definite class, state or condition.

An unfortunate or trying position or condition; a tight spot.

* {{quote-book

, year=1978 , author= , title=The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism , page=xv (20th edition) , passage=Culture, for me, is the effort to provide a coherent set of answers to the existential predicaments that confront all human beings in the passage of their life.}}

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, year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=Marc Higginson , title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.}}

(logic) That which is predicated; a category.