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hardship |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hardship \Hard"ship\, n. That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc --Swift. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hardship n 1: a state of misfortune or affliction: "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: {adversity}] 2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: {asperity}, {grimness}, {rigor}, {rigour}, {severity}, {rigorousness}] 3: something that causes or entails suffering: "I cannot thinking it a hardship that more more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"
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