tribulation (tribulashon)

[ or oppre ion; suffering; distre . That it may please thee to succour, help, and comfort all who are in danger, nece ity, and tribulation . Book of Common Prayer , Litany. He added that poor Will was at present under great trib ulation , for that Tom Touchy had taken the law of him. Add is on, Spectator, No. 269. 2. A cause or occasion of suffering; a trouble or trial. Death and bloodshed, strife and sword, calamities, famine, tribulation , and the scourge. Ecclus. xl. 9. 3. A troublesome or lawle person; also, such persons collectively; colloquially, a trial; a ter ror. .. These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse, that no audience, but the tribulation of Tower-hill, or the limbs of Lime house, their dear brothers, are able to endure. Shak., Hen. VIII., v. 4. 65.