All 7 Uses
afflict
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Year of Wonders
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- And if I desired to succor the afflicted I would have joined you in Holy Orders.†
Chpt 7afflicted = suffering; or made to suffer
- "But, surely, we need these for the succor of the many afflicted here," I said, although my thoughts had sped immediately to my own needs rather than those of the dying.†
Chpt 9
- We saw our work as having two natures: the one, to ease the suffering of the afflicted, and the other, more important but far less certain in its outcome, to bolster up the defenses of the well.†
Chpt 10
- For all of you who love your children know that affliction, too, can be a means of evidencing your care for them.†
Chpt 10 *affliction = something that causes ongoing suffering
- Christopher Unwin, the last surviving son of a family that had numbered twelve before the Plague claimed eleven of them, had lain nine days in his sickbed, much longer than most survive when once afflicted.†
Chpt 11afflicted = suffering; or made to suffer
- If we balanced the time we spent contemplating God, and why He afflicted us, with more thought as to how the Plague spread and poisoned our blood, then we might come nearer to saving our lives.†
Chpt 12
- In England in 1666, the afflicted population missed the mark, believing cats and dogs might be spreading the disease.†
Chpt Aft.
Definitions:
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(1)
(afflict) to cause pain, suffering, or trouble -- especially something long-lasting or hard to endure
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)