Synonyms for affliction
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-flik-shuhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈflɪk ʃən |
Top 10 synonyms for affliction Other synonyms for the word affliction
Définition of affliction
Origin :- c.1300, from Old French afliction (11c.), from Latin afflictionem (nominative afflictio), noun of action from past participle stem of affligere (see afflict).
- noun hurt condition; something that causes hurt
- He hastened to remove Alice from the scene of her affliction.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- That may be, in part, natural to it; in part, the result of affliction.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- But there is where affliction overtook me; they debated its authorship.
- Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable
- Mon Coeur is as pretty as ever; but she is now in affliction.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- This is an affliction almost identical in effect to snow-blindness.
- Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
- To a man who has been accustomed to be busy there is no affliction so intolerable as idleness.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- He therefore beheld the affliction of Roderic with sympathy and compassion.
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- It bore traces of affliction and care, but they were of an old date, and Time had smoothed them.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- The waters of affliction had been wrung out to her in a full cup.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 » by Various
- Tears and wailings they soon dismiss: their affliction and woe they long retain.
- Extract from : « Tacitus on Germany » by Tacitus
Antonyms for affliction
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