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Tribulation vs Tabulation - What's the difference?

tribulation | tabulation |

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.

As a noun tabulation is

the act or process of tabulating.

tribulation

English

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 .

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    tabulation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of tabulating.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • I’m using mathesis' — a universal science of '''measurement''' and '''order''' …
    And there is also '''taxinomia''' a principle of '''classification''' and ordered ''''''tabulation''''''.
    Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
    Western reason had entered the '     age of judgement     .
  • A result of tabulating: a table, displaying data in compact form.
    • Here is a tabulation of baseless claims made in the last month.
  • (computing) A printout.

    • Related terms

    * tabulate * entabulate, entabulation