Infliction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INFLICTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of inflicting
• a nuisance
• the action of inflicting something unpleasant or painful on someone or something
• The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment.
• That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc.
• the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
• an act causing pain or damage
• something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness

Words related to INFLICTION

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Words that contain INFLICTION

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How to use INFLICTION in a sentence

• The blood soon flowed from the back, neck, and breasts, of the poor victim, whose cries, as she writhed under the savage infliction, entered my soul.
• After a severe whipping, to save himself from further infliction of the lash, with which he was threatened, he took to the woods.
• It indicates an injury of comparatively recent infliction.
• I could never understand the infliction of misery upon them.
• The Church used whatever power she had, even to the infliction of death, for sustaining her ideas.
• The infliction of the death-punishment for difference of opinion was still resorted to.
• It is considered a rare occurrence for a person to survive the second infliction of this species of cruelty.
• The punishment of such an offence is such an infliction, no matter who committed the offence.
• Hood, from Halifax, wrote in harsh terms of Boston, although he put on record severe and true things of that chronic local infliction, the Commissioners of the Customs.
• From her baby days her father and mother had taken every opportunity of showing her to their friends, and there was not a friend who did not dread the infliction.
• It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a bound nature has set to the utmost infliction of malice.
• You have chosen a cruel office, but I can bear its infliction.
• Public sentiment had long been opposed to the infliction of this punishment for the offence of forgery, and transportation was now substituted in the prominent cases.
• The unnecessary infliction of pain is always to be avoided.
• These people moreover are from habit backward to strike, and the state of slavery unhappily requires the frequent infliction of punishment in that mode.
• Indeed, he felt proud to think that he had been chosen as the instrument of justice in the infliction of so well-deserved and so terrible a punishment.
• Moreover it is often regarded not as a cruel infliction, but as a service for which return must be made in good things to eat.
• He writhed and wriggled under the infliction, but, fully convinced of my skill, endured the pain like a martyr.
• Only fifty, with baggage and implements, are announced as on the march, but even this number is a hideous infliction on Mr.
• No wonder if he finds it hard indeed to forget or to forgive the infliction of an evil so incomparably profound and frightful.
• I had spent one Sunday in Harrisburg, and did not wish to suffer another infliction of the kind, if any effort of mine could avoid it.
• There was no sign to mitigate the severity of the infliction.
• Men there are, no doubt, whose nature would make them more miserable under the infliction than it had made Plantagenet Palliser.
• We incurred the infliction of an imposition in a thousand ways.
• For nothing whatsoever between parties did the law recognize any duty of revenge, retaliation, or the infliction of personal punishment, but only the payment of compensation.
• It is the only way the infliction can be endured, for the sitting-room is so small that we cannot keep the door closed habitually.
• The penal jurisdiction of a lodge is that jurisdiction which it is authorized to exercise for the trial of masonic offenses, and the infliction of masonic punishment.
• I am bound to say on my conscience, that, of all the evils inflicted upon us by these acquisitions of slave territory, the North has borne its full part in the infliction.
• The severity of the punishment may be conceived by the fact, that one of the number died soon after its infliction.
• The Dock bore the infliction with Christian fortitude and thanked God when Roche left.
• Without them, the almost daily, nerve-shattering scenes which her step-mother somehow managed to enact, however discreet her attitude, became an infliction hardly to be borne.
• This, together with the time consumed in sending me word, caused an interval of about twenty hours between the infliction of the injury and the time I saw the patient.
• His incoherent raving would only bore you, so, like the kindhearted little person I am, I spare you this infliction.
• That one year witnessed the martyrdom of 2000 persons, and the infliction on 17,000 others of punishments only less than death itself.

Similar words containing FLIC without suffix tion and without prefix in

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