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cause suffering — such as illness, pain, or unhappiness
- "Your affectionate and afflicted father, "Alphonse Frankenstein.Chapter 7 (19% in)
- This, to my mother, was more than a duty; it was a necessity, a passion—remembering what she had suffered, and how she had been relieved—for her to act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted.Chapter 1 (64% in)
There are no more uses of "afflict" in Frankenstein.
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