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Definitions
causing misery or pain or distress
Word origin
From afflict + -ive.
Used in a sentence
“But the euil of the paine or the punishment of sin, or any kynde of afflictiue aduersitie, is not (in it self) absolutely euil, or simply to be fled from or auoyded.”
“All this from Jove’s afflictive Hand we bear: Who, far from Argos, wills our Ruin here.”
“The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.”
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