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Afflictive   Listen
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Afflictive  adj.  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." "Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Afflictive" Quotes from Famous Books



... teaching, in early youth, under the shackles of indigence, the way to wealth, and, in the shade of obscurity, the path to greatness; in the maturity of manhood, disarming the thunder of its terrors, the lightning of its fatal blast; and wresting from the tyrant's hand the still more afflictive sceptre of oppression: while descending the vale of years, traversing the Atlantic Ocean, braving, in the dead of winter, the battle and the breeze, bearing in his hand the Charter of Independence, which he had contributed to form, and tendering, from the self-created nation ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick



Words linked to "Afflictive" :   afflict, unpleasant, painful, sore



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