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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1588
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Tribulatio(u)n, n. Also: tribulatio(u)nn, -tione, -cioun(e, -cione, -cyon, trybulatioun, -cione. [ME and e.m.E. tribulaciun (Ancr. R.), tribulacioun (Manning), tribulacyon (1526), tribulation (Shakespeare), OF tribulacion, eccl. Latin tribulation-, L. trībulāre.] (The state or condition of) affliction, sorrow, misery. Also pl., afflictions, sorrows.a1400 Legends of the Saints x 403.
Be ȝe of stedfast wil, … For tholand trybulacione, God in His blys sal ȝov crowne a1400 Legends of the Saints xxix 50.
Na ȝet that man mycht haf meryt … For-out examinacione & wardly tribulacione c1420 Ratis Raving 89.
Tribulacioune a1450 Fifteen Ois 150.
Thou haue of me compassioun In all my tribulacioun 1456 Hay I 1/11.
The tribulacioun of the kirk before the nativitee of Criste a1500 Henr. Fab. 386.
Quhat is avale thy feist and royaltie, With dreidfull hart and tribulatioun [Asl. tribulacioun]? 1490 Irland Mir. I 52/21.
And quhilis he sendis tribulacioune and aduersite, … that the wertu of the persoune be knawin c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 75/77.
Sanct Gabriell Dois go … To thame that ar in purgatory And in thair tribulatioun To gif thame consolatioun c1520-c1535 Nisbet 1 Cor. vii 28.
Sic sal haue tribulationn [P. tribulacioun] of flesch a1538 Abell 126a.
Son eftir folloit grit calamite & tribulacyon eftir the sentens 1546 Lynd. Trag. Card. 110.
Geue I wald mak ane trew narratioun, I causit all that trybulatioun 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 123/9.
I am the merk of the but, contrar the quhilk euere man schutis arrous of tribulatione 1588 King Catechism 23.
Give me … a valkryffe harte, … a stoute and vnwinnable, that na tribulation may mak veiriepl. 1456 Hay I 1/12.
The secund party salbe of the tribulaciouns and destructioun of the four principale realmes grettest of the warld c1520-c1535 Nisbet Rom. v 3.
We glorie in tribulatiounns [P. tribulaciouns], wittand that tribulatioun wirkis pacience a1550 Lang Rosair 305.
Pray for me, that I may finalie be takin fra the croce of temporalite & tribulacionis
b. transf. Physical chastisement.a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 502.
Lunatike, lymare, luschbald, louse thy hose, That I may touch thy tone wyth tribulation
