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Affliction

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Affliction meaning

A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony. | Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.

Example sentences (20)

Claudius' affliction and personality Claudius depicted as the Roman god Jupiter The historian Suetonius describes the physical manifestations of Claudius' affliction in relatively good detail.

All the buildings were abandoned and the entire camp was moved a kilometre away from the site of the affliction.

Because chlorination had not yet been introduced and water filtration was rare, typhoid fever, spread by contaminated water, was a common affliction.

Groupthink is the affliction of those who ought to be — and often think of themselves as — the least vulnerable to it.

He goes as far as kidnapping other people infected by Joker's affliction, comes up with secret protocols, and makes a cell purely to contain himself.

In fact, he tells Alex that he has come to buy a book, “Furnace of Affliction” recommended by the preacher( Alex) who is now in a state of dilemma.

It’s the second most communicable affliction next to the cold in children.

Natural disasters are an affliction that has already befallen us.

The couple said they overheard the owner telling another passenger that the stocky pup eased her anxiety, however, they insisted that the dog appeared to be distressed and struggling with the affliction on his own.

The ) notes that the land of Edom is significant because it is the source of judgment and affliction.

Throughout the story we follow Elspeth as she cowers behind closed doors, doing her best to hide the powerful affliction many have been killed for.

And he has still not received any treatment for his affliction due to the delays caused by the miscommunication.

By age 8 he was stuttering so badly, and was so mortified by his affliction, that he stopped talking altogether, terrified that only gibberish would come out.

Even from a distance, they wondered at how much he knew, how – at a stretch of his hands – all manner of affliction will simply disappear from a diseased body.

It was in this abysmal situation that Ezekiel spoke God’s word of comfort to the afflicted but affliction to the comfortable.

Scripture confirms these truths: “For our momentary light affliction,” the apostle Paul writes, “is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory” (2 Cor 4:17).

The contrast between last Shabbat's Haftorah of affliction and this Shabbat's Haftorah of comfort couldn't be greater.

According to current progressive politics, old, white and male stands not so much as a classification as an affliction.

A rat apparently with the same eye affliction as O. Ratz Rat in a Hot Tin Can tells the tale of a city rat struggling to keep warm in the dead of winter.

Hoffmann's PGA Tour career is on hold as he continues to fight his affliction.