Ordeal may refer to
- The American title of What Happened to the Corbetts, a 1939 novel by Nevil Shute
- Trial by ordeal, the judicial practice
- The first degree of membership in the Order of the Arrow, an organization within the Boy Scouts of America
Famous quotes containing the word ordeal:
“They who aspire to love worthily, subject themselves to an ordeal more rigid than any other.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)