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How to use affliction in a sentence

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Also Jupiter has just separated by two minutes from a square of the Sun, which is an affliction.
I know that, in 10 years, cancer will be an affliction, but not one that sends fear in all of us.
The commandments that they propagate to prevent cancer highlight the importance of diet in warding off the affliction.
If you have a minor affliction, chances are that there probably won't be any pain, both during and after treatment.
The Standard joins the many friends of the bereaved children in extending consolation and sympathy in their great affliction.
He also wants to make a point about human suffering and affliction, which he does by bringing out the allegorical significance of the story.
A scream of pure affliction passed across her lips and infinite pain seemed to hit her, bruising her heart.
I returned to the essay, which describes affliction as a condition deeper and more painful than suffering.
The effects of man's exposition to these laws may vary between pleasure and pain, comfort and affliction, happiness and misery.
Anger, it should be noted, has etymological roots both in trouble, grief and affliction.
That was only a wild guess, but what they did know for sure was that such a strange affliction had to be segregated from normal society.
Tax relief adds to that, the idea that taxation is an affliction, and that's a republican idea.
In 1977 my affliction was formally labeled a form of juvenile rheumatoid crippling arthritis.
One young acolyte has such a rictus from grinning at his master's jokes that it looks like a physical affliction.
We definitely have a ringside seat at a tenacious and historic affliction of an out of control Credit system and boom and bust dynamics.
While I feel like it is not something to be ashamed of, I am diligently learning to live with this affliction.
The affliction has also been likened to Asperger's syndrome, a mild variant of autism.
The recurrence of boils, pustules and other such ailments in the stories echoes Beckett's own frequent affliction with skin disorders.
Let these wives first step into the pyre, tearless without any affliction and well adorned.
The word also means a narrowing of the eyes so that you can get a clearer view, and an affliction where the eyes are not in line.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He was obliged to be dragged to the Hotel de Castries where he worthily played his part, abandoned to the most mortal affliction.
For anyone except the trailer after strange souls The oblate is an affliction.
It does not ask any comer whether he has a name, but whether he has an affliction.
They departed by the gate of Kolomna, surrounded by a multitude of women, children, and aged persons in deep affliction.
If you truly are the consoler of afflicted souls, prove it, for I am full of affliction.
And yet the mere naming of the affliction eased her, although she had no conception of what an embolus might be.
When Hollister was eighteen years old he had been briefly troubled by an affliction of his eyes brought on from overstudy.
It seemed to behove me to come to you and offer you my hand i' your affliction.
This essence is the soul or self, and its meditation is the remover of all sorrow and affliction.
She had the affliction of leaving the mother house without being able to obtain anything, even a hope.
The valetudinarian is a man subject to some affliction, imaginary or real, or it may be both.
Despite all, she loved, she adored him yet, and to leave him gave the most venomed point to the shaft of affliction.
She then went away, walking on tiptoe out of the room, as if she supposed her young friend's affliction could be increased by noise.
But affliction had tempered him, and his insulter's hairs were gray.
It is strange how inanimate objects will twine themselves into our affections, especially in the hour of affliction.
The peerage contributes more four-wheeled affliction than has ever been seen in that neighbourhood.
Also in return for his great kindness in the hour of affliction any one of my artistic works he likes, Noter Dame is the best.
This chap had the same affliction that has taken Margery and yourself.
Talking of medical men, have you ever tried the Golden Ointment for that sad affliction in your eyes?
My dears, heaven has been pleased to try me with more affliction than any other woman of my age and country.
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