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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Bible Dictionaries
Difficulty

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; - opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.

(2):

(n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.

(3):

(n.) A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.

(4):

(n.) Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; - usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Difficulty'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/difficulty.html. 1828.
 
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