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Significados de ordeal en inglés

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A primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence.

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Examples for "trial by ordeal"
Examples for "trial by ordeal"
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The King summons Elsa to answer the charge and decrees trial by ordeal of battle.
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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Yet football's trial by ordeal is anything but over.
The Irish Times
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The trial by ordeal was of various kinds.
An Essay on the Trial By Jury
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Warren Hastings has found, from Asiatic researches, that trial by ordeal was common among the Hindoos.
The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition...
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Well, it's a trial by ordeal, and we're to see which of us can pass it.
The Story Girl
Uso de ordeal en inglés
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And coming through that ordeal six years ago has given him strength.
Reuters
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Despite his recent ordeal, he appeared to be in implausibly good health.
Another life
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The second victim suffered the same ordeal and police investigated both matters.
The South African
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Police launch investigation into Lenasia violence The ordeal didn't end their either.
The South African
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Shamsi said Slahi's ordeal is more proof that torture does not work.
Reuters
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For previous reports on Rice's ordeal last year on K2, click here.
Climbing Magazine
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Though much weakened by his ordeal, King Viserys soon resumed the rule.
Rogues
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His sense of strategy has certainly not been diminished by this ordeal.
My Life, My Tapes
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My intuition had been correct; we had come to meet our ordeal.
Climbing Magazine
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He did not look in the least unnerved by the terrible ordeal.
Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the Jame...
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Trial by ordeal was abolished in this country in the year 1218.
The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition...
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Some community members are now calling for an apology following the ordeal.
News.com.au
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However, it is not known if the baby ever survived the ordeal.
The South African
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The burden has been too heavy for us; the ordeal too fiery.
The Hand but Not the Heart; Or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring
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I hope I find you fully recovered from your ordeal of yesterday?
Jane and the madness of lord byron: being a jane austen mystery
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Varanna believed this was the result of Sorak's ordeal in the desert.
The outcast
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ordália
Ordeal a través del tiempo
Ordeal por variante geográfica
Sudáfrica
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