Definition of "gethsemane" []

• An instance or a place of great suffering. (noun)

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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."
• "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."