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Grammar : Noun
Spell : trahy-uhl, trahyl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtraɪ əl, traɪl



Definition of trials

Origin :
  • mid-15c., "act or process of testing," from Anglo-French trial, noun formed from triet "to try" (see try). Sense of "examining and deciding a case in a court of law" is first recorded 1570s; extended to any ordeal by 1590s. As an adjectival phrase, trial-and-error is recorded from 1806. Trial balloon (1939) is congnate of French ballon d'essai.
  • noun test
  • noun legal proceeding
  • noun trouble, big problem
Example sentences :
  • Yet, in spite of this and other trials, he seems to have preserved his serenity of spirit.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • But Tip never forgot the trials of that day, nor the hard work which he had to endure them.
  • Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy
  • Ah, never had she known for what trials the infant had been reserved!
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Then for the first time he told them his true name and all his trials.
  • Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
  • I can enter into your trials and annoyances as keenly as if I had to encounter them.
  • Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • All the fifteen were condemned, and the trials of the whole occupied an hour and a half.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
  • No affection can sustain these hourly trials of suspicion and reproach.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • As the time of the trials drew near every paper in town took up the cry.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • It will then only be a bitter aggravation of all my trials, and all my miseries.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • Such were the trials of our lovers, and of correspondent worth was the reward they received.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

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