hardship

[Eng. hard; -ship.] 1. Toil, fatigue, hard labor; whatever oppre es the body. "Yet worn he seemed of hardship more than years; And pale his cheek with penance, not with fears." Byron: Corsair , ii. 3. 2. Oppre ion, injury, injustice. For the difference between hardship and griev ance, see GRIEVANCE.