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n. Great affliction, trial, or distress; suffering: Their tribulation has finally passed. See Synonyms at trial.

n. An experience that tests one's endurance, patience, or faith. See Synonyms at burden1.

n. Any adversity; a trying period or event.

n. That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.

n. A state of affliction or oppression; suffering; distress.

n. A cause or occasion of suffering; a trouble or trial.

n. A troublesome or lawless person; also, such persons collectively; colloquially, a trial; a terror.

n. an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event

"William Chambers wrote in his Edinburgh Journal in 1840: "It seems mankind are forever destined to live under some alarming apprehension ... at every interval of three, four, or five years, the community is plunged into the greatest tribulation from the number of bankruptcies and general mercantile stagnation, while ruin stares everyone in the face.""

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