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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
afflict .
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Examples
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And though it be said, "that death entered into the world by sin," (by which is meant that if Adam had never sinned, he had never died, that is, never suffered any separation of his soul from his body), it follows not thence that God could not justly have afflicted him, though he had not sinned, as well as He afflicteth other living creatures that cannot sin.
Leviathan 2007
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For thou art God my strrength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision
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Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul: desire when it cometh, is a tree of life.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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He that afflicteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is infamous and unhappy.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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The Sun's offspring (Sani) approaching towards the constellation Bhaga, afflicteth it.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Subhadra, gratifieth me although he afflicteth my vital breath and stupefieth me with shafts.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision
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Krishna, a terrible calamity approacheth the Kurus when specially, O thou of Vrishni's race, the planet Mahapat afflicteth the constellation
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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