All 5 Uses of
afflict
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- I would nurse the afflicted.†
Chpt 2 *
- As an afflicted marquis observed not long ago (he must have been treated by a specialist) in confession to his spiritual father—a Jesuit.†
Chpt 11
- Of the deceased Smerdyakov he observed, crossing himself, that he was a lad of ability, but stupid and afflicted, and, worse still, an infidel, and that it was Fyodor Pavlovitch and his elder son who had taught him to be so.†
Chpt 12
- I mean an afflicted idiot, formerly the servant, and possibly the illegitimate son, of Fyodor Pavlovitch, Smerdyakov.†
Chpt 12
- Persons severely afflicted with epilepsy are, so the most skillful doctors tell us, always prone to continual and morbid self-reproach.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(afflict) cause suffering -- such as illness, pain, or unhappiness