affliction
pronunciation
How to pronounce affliction in British English:
UK [əˈflɪkʃn]
How to pronounce affliction in American English:
US [əˈflɪkʃən]
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- Noun:
- a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity
- a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health
- a cause of great suffering and distress
Word Origin
- affliction (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French afliction (11c.), from Latin afflictionem (nominative afflictio), noun of action from past participle stem of affligere (see afflict).
Antonym
Example
- 1. I do not understand why affliction has been permitted to smite me .
- 2. They have found comfort under calamity , and refuge and hope in affliction .
- 3. Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful .
- 4. This is not just an american affliction .
- 5. It also enumerates the ways that lead a thinking marxist out of this affliction .