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hardship

[härd′s̸hip′]

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The definition of hardship is adversity, or something difficult or unpleasant that you must endure or overcome.
An example of hardship is when you are too poor to afford proper food or shelter and you must try to endure the hard times and deprivation.

hardship

noun

hard circumstances of life
a thing hard to bear; specific cause of discomfort or suffering, as poverty, pain, etc.

Origin of hardship

Middle English heardschipe: see hard and amp; -ship

hardship

noun

The condition of lacking necessities or comforts; privation or suffering.
A thing or circumstance that causes ongoing or persistent suffering or difficulty: “Hives are a great hardship, but they will not injure your vital organs” (Andrew Weil). See Synonyms at difficulty.

hardship

Noun

(plural hardships)

(countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

Origin

From Middle English herdschipe, hardischipe, equivalent to hard +‎ -ship.

hardship - Legal Definition

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The difficulty or distress resulting to an individual or entity from a court decision, zoning decision, or passage of a law; taken into account as one factor in an equity proceeding.

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The scent of blood was heavy in the chamber, the strain of war and unknown hardship on her face.
Cases of hardship, which the early chancellors would certainly have relieved, were passed over by later judges, simply because no precedent could be found for their interference.
PIETRO DAMIANI (c. 1007-1072), one of the most celebrated ecclesiastics of the IIth century, was born at Ravenna, and after a youth spent in hardship and privation, gained some renown as a teacher.
Financial hardship, coupled with the "humiliation of Versailles" (the treaty that Germany signed to end the war), led to the rise in German nationalism.
In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

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The hardship of it was a pleasure. Life was a pleasure; he looked back at its moments, many of them as shrouded in mist as the opposite bank of the Thames. Objectively, many of them held only misery, fear, confusion; but afterward, and even at the time, he had known an exhilaration stronger than the misery, fear, or confusion. A fragment of belief came to him from another epoch: Cogito ergo sum. For him that had not been true; his truth had been: Sentio ergo sum. I feel, so I exist. He enjoyed this fearful, miserable, confused life, and not only because it made more sense than nonlife. He could never explain that to anyone. Brian Aldiss