Affliction
[ə'flɪkʃ(ə)n]
Definition
(noun.) a cause of great suffering and distress.
(noun.) a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health.
(noun.) a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity.
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Definition
(n.) The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.
(n.) The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Calamity, adversity, misfortune, disaster, visitation, stroke, reverse, reverse of fortune.[2]. Grief, sorrow, distress, woe, tribulation, trial, plague, scourge, trouble, heartache, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, gripe, griping, broken heart, heavy heart.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Trouble, trial, grief, pain, disease, misery, hardship, sorrow
ANT:Consolation, relief, alleviation, assuagement, more_(or, positively:), boon,blessing, gratification, pleasure
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that affliction lays a heavy hand upon you and calls your energy to a halt, foretells that some disaster is surely approaching you. To see others afflicted, foretells that you will be surrounded by many ills and misfortunes.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.
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Examples
- If you are in poverty or affliction I shall be truly glad to relieve you if I can,--I shall indeed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Tears are given them here for meat and drink--bread of affliction and waters of affliction--their recompence comes hereafter. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You've been visited with affliction, and I hope it may do you good; but you'd better have come here. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- His anxiety, his eagerness, and affliction at this pass are pitiable to behold. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I found her a furrowed, grey-haired woman, grave with solitude, stern with long affliction, irritable also, and perhaps exacting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To keep a cottage night-school was one such form; and his affliction did not master his spirit as it might otherwise have done. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He visited the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and kept himself unspotted from the world. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The peerage contributes more four-wheeled affliction than has ever been seen in that neighbourhood. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She thanked him for a thousand thousand kind offices and proofs of steadfast friendship to her in her affliction. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am sensible of having felt that a dignity attached to me among the rest of the boys, and that I was important in my affliction. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have not withheld money, you mean, where it could assuage affliction. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In spite of this affliction, she looked unusually gay and graceful as she glided away. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Sacred moments, when heart talked to heart in the silence of the night, turning affliction to a blessing, which chastened grief and strengthened love. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I would do even the same for the slaveholder as for the slave, if the Lord brought him to my door in affliction. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She then went away, walking on tiptoe out of the room, as if she supposed her young friend's affliction could be increased by noise. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I could not help feeling, though she mingled her tears with mine, that she had a dreadful luxury in our afflictions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Secondly, Mr. Snagsby has to lay upon the table half a crown, his usual panacea for an immense variety of afflictions. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Out of men's afflictions and affections were forged the rivets of their servitude. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Any girl reader who has suffered like afflictions will sympathize with poor Amy and wish her well through her task. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It may be that if we knew more of such strange afflictions we might be the better able to alleviate their intensity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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