'sufferings' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a feeling of distress, pain, or hardship. For example, "I can relate to your sufferings after losing a loved one."
Even worse, what appears to us to be a virtue is actually a vice, for thinking that we suffer on account of the sufferings of our country causes us to grieve for our self and our property, while pity for the sufferings of others is unworthy of a wise man.
This weekend marks the 70th anniversary of the moment when Charles de Gaulle announced to the French nation that it had finally come through the sufferings of the Nazi occupation.
Life will continue to be tough for small firms, but their sufferings can be alleviated.
If it does not, the sufferings of sub-prime lenders may make First Union wish it had stuck to banking.
George Monbiot told the tale of the Indonesian army's savage repression of Irian Jaya in "Poisoned Arrows", and Timothy Mo immortalised the sufferings of East Timor in "The Redundancy of Courage".
Soon after my Pelagian period, I did a one-eighty and became a strict Augustinian (ie, not a heretic at all), but that didn't last long, because then I was up to my ears in Patripassianism, a sneaky heresy that says the Father shared the Son's earthly sufferings voluntarily.
Ironically, this may be because many black sufferings were too awful for any price-tag.
Many were pressed by journalists to explore parallels between the atrocities in London and the sufferings of Muslims in the Middle East.
Though, as the party's deputy leader, she would have little power, the delegates' readiness to give her the job would show that the ANC was capable of backing a convicted criminal who, whatever her past sufferings, represents all that is worst in the party.
Mr Sun says entrepreneurs tell him that his remarks reflect their own "hidden sufferings".For all his troubles, Mr Sun still has ambitious plans.
Given the family's sufferings in Dongshigu, it is hardly surprising that Mr Chen now says he regarded this as a threat.
