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  • She contrasts this definition of suffering with grief, from the Latin word gravare, which refers to "the sense of being pressed down," and affliction, from the Latin word fligere, which means, "to be struck down, as by a blow."

    Phillip Moffitt: How Suffering Got A Bad Name 2008

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