All 12 Uses of
afflict
in
Angela's Ashes
- That's what he tells Mam by the fire and when she says, Why don't you dress like a proper workingman? he says he'll never give an inch, never let them know, and when she says, Why can't you try to talk like a Limerickman? he says he'll never sink that low and the greatest sorrow of his life is that his sons are now afflicted with the Limerick accent.†
Chpt 3
- I ask Dad what afflicted means and he says, "Sickness, son, and things that don't fit."
Chpt 3 *afflicted = suffering; or made to suffer
- Malachy wants to know how you can get a new brother from the Angel on the Seventh Step if you don't have any stairs in your house and Dad tells him that asking too many questions is an affliction.†
Chpt 3
- Malachy wants to know what an affliction is.†
Chpt 3
- Affliction.†
Chpt 3
- Affliction, but Dad says, Och, child, the world is an affliction and everything in it, puts on his cap and goes to the Bedford Row Hospital to see Mam and Michael.†
Chpt 3
- Affliction, but Dad says, Och, child, the world is an affliction and everything in it, puts on his cap and goes to the Bedford Row Hospital to see Mam and Michael.†
Chpt 3
- People in the lane say the fit is an affliction and now I know what affliction means.†
Chpt 4
- People in the lane say the fit is an affliction and now I know what affliction means.†
Chpt 4
- Mikey tells her God is not going to afflict you with the fit and then boot you into hell on top of it.†
Chpt 4
- I sit and wait upstairs, knocking the fleas off my arms and legs, wishing I had Dad here, thinking of my little brother and his foreign name, Alphonsus, an affliction of a name.†
Chpt 7
- The lemonade and bun are delicious and Alphie the new baby is chirping away enjoying his baptism day too innocent to know his name is an affliction.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(afflict) cause suffering -- such as illness, pain, or unhappiness