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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of afflict.

Etymologies

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afflict +‎ -est

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Examples

  • When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • In holy sovereignty and consummate wisdom thou afflictest, and in thy hand afflictions yield the peaceable fruits of righteousness: the hearts of thy people are melted, and they sing of mercy and of judgment, and glorify thy name.

    The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. Isabella Graham

  • By this also I have learned to dread Thine unsearchable judgment, who afflictest the just with the wicked, but not without equity and justice.

    L. Book III: On Inward Consolation. How a Desolate Man ought to commit Himself into the Hands of God 1909

  • [When thou callest to me], thou afflictest my heart.

    An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic Anonymous 1891

  • Killa, and rulest Tenedos with might; even as erst thou heardest my prayer, and didst me honour, and mightily afflictest the people of the

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • In holy sovereignty and consummate wisdom thou afflictest, and in thy hand afflictions yield the peaceable fruits of righteousness: the hearts of thy people are melted, and they sing of mercy and of judgment, and glorify thy name.

    The Power of Faith Graham, Isabella 1843

  • Peradventure thou afflictest thyself unto death, lest the Meccans become not believers.

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716

  • O Merciful Father, who never afflictest Thy children but for their own good, and with justice, over which Thy mercy always prevaileth, either to turn them to repentance, or to punish them in the present life, in order to reward them in a better; take pity, we beseech Thee, upon this Thy poor afflicted servant, languishing so long and so grievously under the weight of Thy Hand.

    The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces Jonathan Swift 1706

  • O merciful Father, who never afflictest Thy children but for their own good, and with justice, over which Thy mercy always prevaileth, either to turn them to repentance, or to punish them in the present life in order to reward them in a better; take pity, we beseech

    Three Sermons: I. on mutual subjection. II. on conscience. III. on the trinity Jonathan Swift 1706

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