Both Uses of
afflict
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
- Two other priests then living in the mission compound, which was in the Nobori-cho section — Father Superior La-Salle and Father Schiffer — had happily escaped this affliction.†
Chpt 1 *affliction = something that causes ongoing suffering
- Down in Hiroshima, the flood took up where the bomb had left off — swept away bridges that had survived the blast, washed out streets, undermined foundations of buildings that still stood — and ten miles to the west the Ono Army Hospital, where a team of experts from Kyoto Imperial University was studying the delayed affliction of the patients, suddenly slid down a beautiful, pine-dark mountainside into the Inland Sea and drowned most of the investigators and their mysteriously diseased patients alike.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
to cause pain, suffering, or trouble -- especially something long-lasting or hard to endure