buffetings's Usage Examples:

to excommunicate Rigdon from the church "and deliver [him] over to the buffetings of satan until he repents".

Because it is Nazimova's presentation of a story that has survived even the buffetings of endless productions—good, bad, and indifferent—it promises to be interesting.

With metallic buffetings Scornfully I smite your enwrinkled visage, O bestial fanatic of relentless.

They would be "destroyed in the flesh, and shall be delivered unto the buffetings of Satan unto the day of redemption" (D'C 132:26).

Though the "buffetings of wind and waves' eroded the rocks around the structures on the Eddystone.

strait, Frobisher with apparent reluctance turned back, and after many buffetings and separations, the fleet at last came to anchor in Frobisher Bay.

in which I may leave them, free from the reverses of fortune and the buffetings of the world.

Synonyms:

strike; knock about; batter;

Antonyms:

understate; succeed; miss; promote;