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af·flic·tions

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  1. afflictions

    a cause of persistent pain or distress

    Host, she did not wish her people to suffer the afflictions of so many other kingdoms.


    Submitted by davidb on February 13, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of afflictions in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of afflictions in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of afflictions in a Sentence

  1. Berthold Auerbach:

    Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

  2. Bryant McGill:

    Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity’s great afflictions.

  3. Joseph Addison:

    A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

  4. Clive Staples Lewis:

    Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

  5. Jose Marti:

    Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

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