Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instance or a place of great suffering.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Gethsemane.]
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Examples
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As though the main trouble were not enough, the poor little wife was further smitten with the two-edged mental anguish which is the experience of sensitive women whose husbands neglect them at this crisis of the maternal gethsemane.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916
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But at gethsemane Church in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg in what is now the most fashionable district of the former east, she said Germany still bears the scars of division.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
bilby commented on the word gethsemane
I discovered today I've been mispronouncing this word since forever :-( Although, if anything, I find the correct pronunciation even more evocative.
December 22, 2007