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  • noun Plural form of affliction.

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Examples

  • Another sufferer is "desahuiciado with lamparones y empeines," severe skin afflictions, but he, too, is cured after the holy soil is rubbed on him, as is another man who is suffering from "one hundred and ten sores."

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • And the most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being.

    On Experience, Part Two « So Many Books 2006

  • I call my afflictions light ones and am embarrassed to include them on a page that speaks of the four girls who perished in a Sunday-school classroom.

    Reposition Yourself T.D. Jakes 2007

  • One great comfort, however, under all afflictions, is that 'The French

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • Christ was destined to endure certain afflictions in this figurative body, as well as in His literal; these were "that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ," which

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Faith gives strength to prayer, the great instrument against the foe (Jas 1: 6, &c.). knowing, &c. -- "encouragement not to faint in afflictions": your brethren suffer the same; nothing beyond the common lot of Christians befalls you (1Co 10: 13).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The economy is flirting with recession, the debt crisis has threatened to move beyond Greece and banks are looking increasingly fragile - and that's on top of the some of the longer term afflictions such as an aging population.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DAVID BERMAN 2011

  • The economy is flirting with recession, the debt crisis has threatened to move beyond Greece and banks are looking increasingly fragile - and that's on top of the some of the longer term afflictions such as an aging population.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DAVID BERMAN 2011

  • Note, Those who have been sharers with each other in afflictions and mercies, dangers and deliverances, ought in consideration thereof to unite for their joint and mutual safety and protection; and it is likely to be well with the church when Ephraim and Judah are one against the Philistines.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • Note, The intention of afflictions is to teach us righteousness; and blessed is the man whom God chastens, and thus teaches, Ps. xciv.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

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