Affliction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AFFLICTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being afflicted
• a cause of pain or harm
• the state of being in pain
• an instance of one celestial body afflicting another.
• The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.
• The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief.
• a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity
• a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health
• a cause of great suffering and distress

Words related to AFFLICTION

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Words that contain AFFLICTION

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How to use AFFLICTION in a sentence

• Truly there is much affliction and misery in this world! When day dawned, the maid arose from her bed to feed the cows.
• The Regent, whose affliction was as brief as it had been violent, seemed suddenly endowed with a new nature.
• I can only ask your pity and sympathy in my terrible affliction.
• This grievous affliction was borne with unvarying patience and cheerfulness.
• I hope that my dear and valued friend, the Duchess of Gloucester, is as well as we can expect after her deep affliction.
• Fry was to pass through still deeper waters of affliction and trial while in her suffering state.
• The Vial poured out on the earth, affliction upon the followers of the beast.
• Your aunt bears up under this affliction as becomes a Christian.
• This affliction placed me in a position of serious embarrassment, in regard to the disposal of my property after my death.
• This affliction is more necessary to you than food and drink.
• This affliction we cherish, and brood over in solitude.
• It is strange how inanimate objects will twine themselves into our affections, especially in the hour of affliction.
• But there surely are homes that have passed through experiences of affliction that have a deeper, richer, fuller joy now than they had before the grief came.
• Out of silent mountains and storms of affliction, rusheth my soul into the valleys.
• Though the house of commons unanimously sympathised with the king in his affliction, the minister still met with contradiction in some of his favourite measures.
• The king of France, besides the generous treatment which he met with in England, had the melancholy consolation of the wretched, to see companions in affliction.
• In his reply, affliction, submission, gratitude, veneration, and despair was seen in almost every line, and he insisted upon adhering to his purpose.
• And during these few years the arrows of affliction have rained down without intermission from the clouds of fate.
• Affliction has tried the virtues of my children, and brought me to a sense of my own errors.
• This Affliction in my Life has streaked all my Conduct with a Softness, of which I should otherwise have been incapable.
• His Affliction would have been insupportable, had not he been comforted by the daily Visits and Conversations of his Friend.
• He lived beyond that time, rejoicing, if it may be so said, in the fond memories of her mother which he had been so long forbidden by her affliction to recall.
• We speak of our sympathy in their affliction for others whom we do not know and who do not know us, but that is a very imperfect rendering of the perfect thing.
• Unable to decide the question, they each resolve to bear the strongest possible witness to the depth of their affliction by putting an end to their lives.
• Every affliction and struggle of this civil war may be sanctified, not only to the moral improvement, but also to the material prosperity of our land.
• I had the joy of a talk with her about it, for it was a joy to have her make light of her affliction, in the great number of good things wherein God had blessed her.
• She pressed down, so far as she could, the heavy affliction that was weighing upon her mind.
• That sad affliction, he thought, was the cause of a considerable change in her treatment of her slaves.
• Yet hath God left me some comfort in my affliction.

Similar words containing AFFLIC without suffix tion

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