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It was through him that I made the acquaintance of the Scheffer family, whom I have to thank for a companion who has always assorted herself so harmoniously to my somewhat contracted conditions of life that I am at times tempted, when I reflect upon so many fortunate coincidences, to believe in predestination According to my philosophy, which regards the world in its entirety as full of a divine afflation, there is no place for individual will in the government of the universe.— Recollections of My Youth
But there was a new afflation -— Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses
But Ferriday was deep in love with his art; he was panting with the afflation of Apollo.— We Can't Have Everything
n. - divine breath; inspiration. afflation, n. act of breathing upon; inspiration. affranchise v. - liberate from servitude, debt etc.— xml's Blinklist.com
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