properly means contention in the athletic games; and to agonise is the act of contending. (Greek, agõn, a game of contest, as well as a “place of assembly”).
Agony, meaning “great pain,” is the wrestle with pain or struggle with suffering.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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