Serious difficulties, suffering, or distressing experiences that cause great trouble.
From Latin 'tribulatio,' derived from 'tribulum' (a threshing machine that crushes grain). Used metaphorically to mean crushing hardship or pressure.
When Romans wanted to describe suffering, they compared it to a threshing machine crushing grain—which shows how universal human suffering feels like being crushed by mechanical forces!
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