Tribulation vs Woe - What's the difference?
tribulation | woe | Related terms |
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, , "
grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
A curse; a malediction.
* South
(obsolete) woeful; sorrowful
* Robert of Brunne
* Chaucer
* Spenser
Tribulation is a related term of woe.
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 woe is
grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.As an adjective woe is
(obsolete) woeful; sorrowful.tribulation
English
Noun
(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 .
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe , she took.
- [They] weep each other's woe .
- Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
Derived terms
* in weal or woe * woeful * woe is meAdjective
(en adjective)- His clerk was woe to do that deed.
- Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.
- And looking up he waxed wondrous woe .