hour of cause

noun

A time of trial or difficulty.

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Meanings

noun
  1. ScotlandA time of trial or difficulty.

    How sad my case, then, when my hour of cause arrived, and I could lay my hands absolutely on nothing that I could carry away, and very little to eat.

    1875, Alexander Pyne, Reminiscences of Colonial Life
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