How To Use Affliction In A Sentence

Since the anito is the cause of all bodily afflictions the chief function of the person who battles for the health of the afflicted is that of the exorcist, rather than that of the therapeutist. The Bontoc Igorot
Let these wives first step into the pyre, tearless without any affliction and well adorned.
In afflictions, relatives and opponents combine with the ease-loving heart itself in flatteries, which it needs strong faith to overcome. yourselves know -- We always candidly told you so (1Th 3: 4; Ac 14: 22). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The commandments that they propagate to prevent cancer highlight the importance of diet in warding off the affliction.
Yet this is not all: they are proud still, and therefore they do not seek unto God (Ps.x. 4), or, if they do cry unto him, therefore he does not give answer, for he hears only the desire of the humble (Ps.x. 17) and delivers those by his providence whom he has first by his grace prepared and made fit for deliverance, which we are not if, under humbling afflictions, our hearts remain unhumbled and our pride unmortified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

Victims of lathyrism, "crawlers", are numerous among the poor in Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh and Nepal where the affliction remains a present threat. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
If thy disease be continuate and painful to thee, it will not surely last: and a light affliction, which is but for a moment, causeth unto us a far more excellent and eternal weight of glory, 2 Cor. iv. Anatomy of Melancholy
A catchall term for a host of afflictions including Lupus and MS, autoimmune disorders treat the body's organs and normal functions as enemy invaders.
Larsen: People who are really creative do use the term affliction, because it is like a daimon that has hold of you and it's where your energy comes from. Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND
The apostle says not (remarks Calvin nobly) "What," but "Who," just as if all creatures and all afflictions were so many gladiators taking arms against the Christians [Tholuck]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The prophecy, probably, contemplates ultimately, besides the affliction and deliverance in Sennacherib's time, the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome, the dispersion of the Jews, their restoration, the destruction of the enemies that besiege the city (Zec 14: 2), and the final glory of Israel (Isa 29: 17-24). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She's a whirlwind of anger and violence, desperate to deny the finality of Rocky's affliction that she knew she would one day have to face.
She is not interested in neophilia, the insatiable hunger for the new that is one of the terrible afflictions of contemporary society. Victoria Miro, queen of arts
Those who through grace can glory in tribulation ought to glorify God in tribulation, and give him thanks for their comforts, which abound as their afflictions do abound. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
We shot an old pallah on the 16th, and found that the poor animal had been visited with more than the usual share of animal afflictions. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
Some are raised even in areas where domestic cattle cannot survive because of afflictions such as trypanosomiasis and foot-and-mouth disease. 5 Chicken
On those occasions in which relief from a specific affliction was not achieved through home remedies, however, individuals or families might solicit the assistance of a curandero (folk curer) or other type of folk healer.
When Nur al-Din foregathered with his mother and father, they were gladdened in each other with the utmost gladness and care and affliction ceased from them, whilst his parents joyed no less in the Princess Miriam and honoured her with the highmost honour. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It was not until a certain jet-black-haired songbird had the courage to step forward and let the world know she suffered from this debilitating affliction that I knew I too could stand tall, gassy burning throat and all.
Heartburn sounds such an innocuous affliction until you actually experience it but stabbing sharp pains in your chest when ever you bend down or lie down is not very fun.
Those who run sport often suffer from a congenital affliction that causes them to alter the games over which they are temporary custodians. Times, Sunday Times
Nor grew this familiarity (as yet) any way distasted, till by their daily conversing together, and enterchange of infinite pretty speeches, Jeronimo felt a strange alteration in his soule, with such enforcing and powerfull afflictions; as he was never well but in her company, nor she enjoyed any rest if Jeronimo were absent. The Decameron
His grandmother had the same affliction that his mother was cursed with.
Some afflictions that are caused by an epigene that's turned off a gene when it should be on, or vice versa, have been "cured" by finding the malfunctioning epigene and replacing it with a better version. Prairiemary
She affected to be spunky about her ailments and afflictions, but she was in fact an utterly self - centered valetudinarian.
Also Jupiter has just separated by two minutes from a square of the Sun, which is an affliction.
The long and expensive illness which terminated the life of my dear father on the 19th of August 1823 has involved our family in affliction and distress. Letter 385
I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind.
In fact, he probably went into psychology in order to evade his own problems by concentrating on the mental afflictions of others.
The script, moreover, while restoring some of the gloss to the Hughes story, leans more to spectacle than elucidation where his affliction is concerned.
And in it he asks them to 'Consider' -- his countrymen have scarcely as yet considered it sufficiently -- 'Consider, brethren, it is no speculative theologue which desireth to give you courage, but even your brother in affliction, which partly hath experience what Satan's wrath may do against the chosen of John Knox
It signifies a _trial_ or _probation_ and affliction, distress or hardship; and particularly an _affliction whereby one is tried, proved, or tested_. A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885
Its tendency to promote human happiness, and its sovereign eiBcaey to tranquillize the mind and administer con - solation 'under afflictions, disappointments, and trials. Memoirs of the Life of Martha Laurens Ramsay: With an Appendix Containing Extracts from Her ...
It signifies many kinds of skin afflictions including eczema, acne, and boils.
Another sufferer is "desahuiciado with lamparones y empeines," severe skin afflictions, but he, too, is cured after the holy soil is rubbed on him, as is another man who is suffering from "one hundred and ten sores. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Thousands visited the springs hoping for cures for afflictions including (according to one 1821 inventory) “Habitual Costiveness,” “Depraved appetite,” “Calculous and nephritic complaints,” “Cutaneous eruptions,” “Some species or states of gout,” “Some species of dropsy,” scrofula, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea. Off to the Races
What roles does affliction, the suffering constrained by the sense of God's palpable absence, play in divine providence, according to Herbert's poetry?
It seems strange to me, that the Lord Jesus Christ should commit this architectonical power in his house unto magistrates, foreseeing of what sort the greatest number of them would be, yea, determining that they should be such, for the trim and affliction of his own. The Sermons of John Owen
And when Satan's eyes are called "baleful," the word, besides indicating the "huge affliction and dismay" that he feels, gives a hint of the woes that are in store for the victims on whom those eyes have not yet lit. Milton
He bore his affliction with a great dignity.
Second, authors discuss the importance of palaeopathology for not simply learning about the health and afflictions of the ancients but for understanding diseases today. Books: Ancient Roadmap, Latin Revival, Mostly about Mummies
Thus the successful combating of certain disturbances in the activities of the organs of internal secretion, as also of the deficiency diseases, or avitaminoses, has been a direct result of the increase in our knowledge of the nature of these afflictions. Physiology or Medicine 1945 - Presentation Speech
The heroes in both films were ordinary mortals destined to fight the afflictions of life.
When Matthew Oates, the National Trust's roving butterfly expert, first described this affliction, it sounded quite pleasant: by August, butterfly lovers are so knackered, all they can do is sit in an armchair and wait for the last butterfly of summer, the brown hairstreak, to descend from an ash tree. How I became a lepidopterist
The spotty leaves of Pulmonaria officinalis, or lungwort, indicated it could cure tuberculosis and other afflictions of the lungs.
As the week trudged on, I began to realize I was in the midst of the winter "blahs," an affliction that seems to grab hold of virtually every adult living in the Rustbelt during the winter, particularly February. Tonawanda News Homepage
The first of these can be seen simply as a misfortune: Unity was an afflicted person and what could the family do but endure her affliction. Times, Sunday Times
Such matters include, for example, marital difficulties, anorexia, post-natal depression, physical and sexual abuse and other injuries, afflictions and misfortunes of an intimate and private nature.
One young acolyte has such a rictus from grinning at his master's jokes that it looks like a physical affliction.
I have to say I admire my own courage in admitting to suffering this affliction. Times, Sunday Times
He listens to everyone and removes the pains and afflictions of all.
Hence the time of our sorrow and affliction is fixed at forty days; the state of blessed joy which shall be hereafter is figured in the quinquagesimal festival, i.e. the fifty days from Easter to Pentecost. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
Another sufferer is "desahuiciado with lamparones y empeines," severe skin afflictions, but he, too, is cured after the holy soil is rubbed on him, as is another man who is suffering from "one hundred and ten sores. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Sir, of your valliance you should have held to your good vow, -- quoth the damozel, for now you see me sore perplexed and that you did not your devoir is my affliction. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 1
'unstaid minds,' it might administer just cause to think him the unfittest man that could be to offer at a comment upon Job, as seeming by this to have no more true sense of a good man in his afflictions than those Edomitish friends had, of whom Job complains, and against whom God testifies his anger. The Life of John Milton
It governs the feet and can be taken to indicate all diseases and afflictions that relate to them - athlete's foot, gout, aches and pains, lameness, ingrowing toenails, bunions, etc.
Tax relief adds to that, the idea that taxation is an affliction, and that's a republican idea.
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. Archive 2007-12-01
Note, Those who have been sharers with each other in afflictions and mercies, dangers and deliverances, ought in consideration thereof to unite for their joint and mutual safety and protection; and it is likely to be well with the church when Ephraim and Judah are one against the Philistines. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The problem is compounded by my developing cyberchondria, which is a particularly 21st century-type of an affliction, referring as it does to the inflation of worries about your state of health based on material you have dredged up online. WalesOnline - Home
The situation in which she found her was truly alarming, for the shock she had sustained seemed to have overwhelmed every superior faculty; she appeared the very statue of despair; she neither moved, spoke, nor wept; and that sensibility which was ever alive to the afflictions of others was smothered to stupifaction in her gentle bosom. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
But the worst of it is, that in such afflictions as yours is, the idea of ever becoming comforted is altogether loathsome, and so, my darling, I can do you no good. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
What makes this affliction especially frustrating is that I feel I properly maintain the machine. Handheld power equipment won’t start? Maybe it’s the ethanol
And for one in afflictions to give thanks looseth his sins; and almsgiving, which is greater than all. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
This was to me a great affliction. Christianity Today
But,” added he, at seeing the old woman’s uneasiness at his discourse, “affliction may gie him a jagg, and let the wind out o’ him, as out o’ The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Usually Saturn with Oculus Taurii produces great afflictions, and shows a strange mind.
Faith gives strength to prayer, the great instrument against the foe (Jas 1: 6, &c.). knowing, &c. -- "encouragement not to faint in afflictions": your brethren suffer the same; nothing beyond the common lot of Christians befalls you (1Co 10: 13). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
There is a crook [an affliction, a trial] in the lot of every one.
God's design in afflicting his people is their probation, not their destruction; their advantage, not their ruin: a trial, as the word signifies, is an experiment or search made upon a man, by some affliction, to prove the value and strength of his faith. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The steady rocking motion of a ship also stimulates the semicircular canals, and to those who are not used to this overstimu-lation the result often is seasickness, which is an extremely unpleasant, though not really fatal affliction. The Human Brain
I see "busybody" syndrome isn't just an affliction of estadounidenses. Volunteerism in Mexico?
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ish'ma-el; 8 because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. Genesis 16.
He has written close to a dozen books set among the working class in this region, all of them stark portrayals of affliction, yet his writing is always redemptive and uplifting.
The Sun ruling the 2nd is not such an affliction.
Sexual ‘abnormalities’ - including promiscuity - are associated in general with afflictions between Venus, Mars and Saturn.
In a letter to Mersenne, Descartes asks why "what makes one man want to dance may make another want to cry": it may be, he suggests, that the second man has "never heard a galliard without some affliction befalling him", so that he cries Memory
Because our understanding of this affliction is limited, and also because there is an overall lack of additional medicinal or medical words shared among Ruvu and Southern Cushitic speakers, many questions remain about why such a word might have been borrowed, particularly since * chilalu, which was already present in Ruvu lexis, previously named a "shouting" affliction. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
I will not say as to that all that I think; but I am very glad to be able to speak of it to you in order that you may put your shyness more to one side, if you are still a victim to it – I can use that expression, for shyness is a real affliction. The Ruin of a Princess
And surely that is the best deliverance in all affliction, to be made so spiritually exhilarant that we can rise above it. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
They sing of the profundity of affliction and of the complexity of God's ultimate grace, and they offer wild and glorious hosannas in such a way that testifies to the hope offered by God's infinite love.
Well, a feller that's courtin 'hain't no stranger tew affliction, thet's a fact. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
My sins cry aloud; Cain's murder did so: my afflictions cry aloud; _the floods have lifted up their voice_ (and waters are afflictions), _but thou, O Lord, art mightier than the voice of many waters_; [307] than many temporal, many spiritual afflictions, than any of either kind: and why dost thou not speak to me in that voice? Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
The medical profession is still investigating the cause of amusia and it is possible that there is a genuine affliction that disables the ability to distinguish musical intonation, but in the vast majority of cases, even the most excruciating singer can be taught to sing in tune. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Both the Mesoamerican and Christian pantheon of gods and saints, mirrors of contemporary anxieties, were created to appeal for divine succor from a vast assortment of afflictions. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
And the King James 'Bible is capable of synchysis, or ` interlocked word-order': "Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
a long period of life: those later, in sharper afflictions. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Blindness can be a terrible affliction.
Pilotshark, I again commend you on your compassionate approach to teh trolls — offering them help to overcome their affliction, rather than simple derision. Think Progress » CNN Taps Unhinged Conservative Blogger Erick Erickson As Regular Political Commentator
Some New Mexicans have been diagnosed with neurodegenerative afflictions which disappeared when they stopped consuming aspartame.
Waters of affliction cannot quench love - it only grows stronger and clings more firmly to its object.
Hay fever is an affliction which arrives at an early age.
True it is, that I shall travaile in this my latest journey, with endlesse torment and affliction of soule, except he have some understanding thereof before, and not knowing by whom to give him intelligence, in so oft and convenient order, as by thee: I doe therefore commit this last office of a friend to thy trust, desiring thee, not to refuse me in the performance thereof. The Decameron
There is a crook [an affliction, a trial] in the lot of every one.
Therefore, because the affliction is mitigated and moderated, and the rough wind stayed, therefore we may conclude that he designs their reformation, not their destruction; and, because he deals thus gently with us, we should therefore study to answer his ends in afflicting us. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Anger, it should be noted, has etymological roots both in trouble, grief and affliction.
‘Without it, children become easy prey for a host of life-threatening afflictions that carry in dirty water and on unwashed fingers,’ she said.
Once again, many do not recognise their affliction, and needlessly suffer conditions such as cramping and intestinal gas. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
A scream of pure affliction passed across her lips and infinite pain seemed to hit her, bruising her heart.
Never was affliction so cutting as hers; she imputed the piercingness of it to what had happened that day, and believed that if the Duke de Nemours had not had ground to believe she loved him she should not have cared whether he loved another or not; but she deceived herself, and this evil which she found so insupportable was jealousy with all the horrors it can be accompanied with. The Princess of Cleves
In 1977 my affliction was formally labeled a form of juvenile rheumatoid crippling arthritis.
God knows, nothing of this kind was ever in my thoughts; but I have entered very deeply into your affliction with regard to your Mother; and while I was wishing, the many poor souls in the kind of desponding way she is in, whom I have seen, came afresh into my mind; and all the mismanagement with which I have seen them treated was strong in my mind, and I wrote under a forcible impulse, which I could not at that time resist, but I have fretted so much about it since, that I think it is the last time I will ever let my pen run away with me. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
My heart, however, labours under a double affliction: For my poor boy is very, very bad — a violent fever — nor can it be brought to intermit. — Clarissa Harlowe
Somehow, you have gone form arguing that embryonic stem clee research is not the most promising for a whole host of afflictions to arguing that we shouldn’t research embryonic stem cells exclsuively. Lean Left » Blog Archive » Fox Commerical
The recurrence of boils, pustules and other such ailments in the stories echoes Beckett's own frequent affliction with skin disorders.
The effects of man's exposition to these laws may vary between pleasure and pain, comfort and affliction, happiness and misery.
It is apparent that William Dudley and Ben Bernanke have succumbed to a common affliction among economists known as "unreality syndrome. For Americans Who Eat or Drive, Inflation Is a Reality
That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to a sufferer's affliction (Zec 1: 15). satisfied with my flesh -- It is not enough that God afflicts my flesh literally (Job 19: 20), but you must "eat my flesh" metaphorically (Ps Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
An alien reading Our Bodies would conclude that exclusion from a restroom because of one's "trans-gender" identity is a far greater tragedy than, say, dying because America is the only industrialized country without universal health care — or than suffering from an affliction such as quadriplegia or bladder cancer. Latex Conquers All
The remoteness that tourists value has long been officially recognized in the mountains as an affliction.
Some were _epithalamia_, or songs composed to celebrate marriages; others to commemorate a victory, or the accession of a prince; to return thanks to the Deity, or to celebrate his praises; to lament a general calamity, or a private affliction; and others, again, were peculiar to their festive meetings. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
We all know people who suffer from this affliction. Times, Sunday Times
A new report warns that a group of tropical sea snails, famous for yielding new wonder drugs to treat chronic pain, cancer, and many other afflictions, could rapidly become extinct if measures are not taken to protect them.
If the horary concerns a 7th house matter, however, the affliction may be describing the situation under consideration, in which case the warning is to proceed with diligence.
If you have a minor affliction, chances are that there probably won't be any pain, both during and after treatment.
The most dangerous afflictions for boards are groupthink and reluctance to challenge a powerful chief executive. Times, Sunday Times
His grandmother had the same affliction that his mother was cursed with.
At his urging, I donned protective clothing and headed off in search of this tragic new affliction.
He is committed to prison, to hell prison, there to abide, not at pleasure, not as long and as little time as he will, but the term appointed by his Judge; nor may he there choose his own affliction, neither for manner, measure, or continuance. The Riches of Bunyan
We suffer nobly, alone, because we do not want to spread our affliction.
But by the same token, tracks like "Year of Affliction", "Lethean", and "Suffocate" show that the band is equally able to thrash just as hard as any "tough-guy" hardcore band in the modern scene. PopMatters
It's sur - prising that she can bear up with such an affliction.
Bemusement, uncertainty, insecurity, affliction are all tokens of an unremitting struggle; however stylish, the words are always about something, they are never in vacuo or for display.
Blindness, offering the title affliction as yet another way of undermining the social order and illustrating the standard dystopic notions of power corrupting basic moral principles. PopMatters
The Duke's affliction is first reported by the doctor as a ‘very pestilent disease.'
Now he was in deep affliction for the loss of his brother.
His mother, Tracy, drank the tap water while pregnant with Thomas and she and her husband are now convinced that this was the cause of his afflictions.
The two share (d) a common affliction, bibliophobia or the fear of books. Bush - A modern day Marie Antoinette and the best friend Bin Laden could have
But now, said the paper, as Clay moved once again amidst his countrymen, “touched by affliction, they accompany him whithersoever he bends his steps, deepened by the reverence which a free people can only accord to the most worthy and most honored of public men.” A Country of Vast Designs
There are many people who do many right things under the influence of sickness, affliction, death in the family, public calamities or a sudden qualm of conscience.
There is a crook [an affliction, a trial] in the lot of every one.
Swimming with dolphins has had an amazing effect on many people, helping them overcome a variety of afflictions.
His decease was a severe affliction to his family, a grief to his friends, and a subject of regret even to foreigners, and those who had no personal knowledge of him. The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
Unwilling to wait and see a GP, they and their minor affliction head for Aberdeen Royal and the soothing ministrations of Ferguson.
She reveals to him that she is cursed with an affliction that causes her to fill up with water that can only be released if she does ‘something wicked.’
Their afflictions were of long standing, and they felt them to be irremediable.
This volume focused on diseases of the kidney and its association with dropsy and albuminuria, as well as diseases of the liver with dropsy and afflictions of the lungs and intestines.
The economy is flirting with recession, the debt crisis has threatened to move beyond Greece and banks are looking increasingly fragile - and that's on top of the some of the longer term afflictions such as an aging population. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
We have got babies left on railway platforms, and in drains and garbage bins, and children bitten by dogs and besieged by disease and affliction.
He afterwards says (p. 280) that Galla died in childbed; and intimates, that the affliction of her husband was extreme but short.] 112 Lycopolis is the modern The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Remember – Prince of Darkness - Ken D. is an excellent embodiment of a common affliction in progs – hypocrisy. Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows
he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns
They have found comfort under calamity, and refuge and hope in affliction.
Best of all, Silverman touches all the milestones and wet spots of the titular affliction, medically known as enuresis: parents who get up at night with the bedwetting child, fear of embarrassment on a sleepover, the electric pad in the bed that jolts the child awake with its alarm, the prescient doctor who declares early on that she'll outgrow it (and she does). IndyStar.com Top Stories
Note, The intention of afflictions is to teach us righteousness; and blessed is the man whom God chastens, and thus teaches, Ps. xciv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
We all know people who suffer from this affliction. Times, Sunday Times
As we may speak of the stages of a disease like consumption, so we may speak of these three conditions as different stages of one affliction, the worst being costiveness with its progressive self-poisoning by the products of intestinal decomposition. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
His grandfather also suffered a similar affliction after spending four years working on the Burma Railway. Times, Sunday Times
Illustrations in medieval health handbooks often depict people buying spiced wine (hippocras), which being classed as drying and heating was considered a tasty and convenient remedy for a cool or wet affliction, or merely as a safeguard against the perils of the cold and wet winter: not unlike a vaccination. A Conversation with Jack Turner
There is a crook [an affliction, a trial] in the lot of every one.
[50] Tears have power to cleanse the wickedness of our heart, and sufferings and affliction are necessary, because through suffering the sinful expansion of the heart is salutarily contracted, and when the heart is thus contracted, tears more easily flow. My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
Court; wherein thou hast given me much affliction of minde, and so overthrowne my senses, as I cannot well imagine how I should deale with thee. The Decameron
There is a crook [an affliction, a trial] in the lot of every one.
Any kind of cognizance of an indescribable excess in the joy of the bath, any kind of ardour or thirst which perpetually impels the soul out of night into the morning, and out of gloom, out of "affliction" into clearness, brightness, depth, and refinement: -- just as much as such a tendency DISTINGUISHES -- it is a noble tendency -- it also Beyond Good and Evil
Bloggers block, the accursed affliction affects the best of us.
Some people took the precaution of seeing their doctor in time and thereby spared themselves untold affliction.
That was only a wild guess, but what they did know for sure was that such a strange affliction had to be segregated from normal society.
She was a discreet, sober, provident woman, and with great patience endured many afflictions.
Our clumsy attempts at diagnosis are harmful to the people concerned, damaging to organisational productivity and insensitive to those who really do live with afflictions like Asperger's Syndrome.
In fact, considering what a common affliction deafness is, it does not figure very largely in the annals of literature. Times, Sunday Times
The Standard joins the many friends of the bereaved children in extending consolation and sympathy in their great affliction.
But he manifests himself with blasphemies and afflictions in the person he possesses. Times, Sunday Times
And the most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. On Experience, Part Two « So Many Books
I can't help thinking, though, that if I suffered under such an affliction I'd be a darn sight more careful with my eardrums
Most afflictions that lead to death leave no trace on bone, but where soft tissue has survived palaeopathology (the study of ancient disease) can reveal a great deal.
Pitta's critics concede that many quarters share the blame for Sao Paulo's afflictions.
He also wants to make a point about human suffering and affliction, which he does by bringing out the allegorical significance of the story.
The source of the affliction was a parasite on rye crops, a fungus known as ergot, which contains a series of compounds that among other characteristics causes the blood vessels to contract—hence the gangrene in the extremities. One River
Some have complained bitterly of the failure of municipal authorities to provide adequate water for bathing in this bitter season of heat and affliction.
We lift high the matzah, the bread of affliction, for all to see; we taste the painful maror to remind us of embittered lives and oppressive work; we drink four cups of redemptive wine. Ari Hart: Food Justice At Your Seder Table
This directed Gauguin's search for sacred art away from our world of afflictions, through a penitential view of personal martyrdom to a symbolist, dreamlike transcendence available to initiates alone.
And death (as yet) being deafe to all his earnest imprecations, delayed him on in lingering afflictions: and continuing still in such an extreame condition, he was advised by some of his best friends, utterly to abstaine from this fond pursuit, because his hopes were meerely in vaine, and Madam Catulla prized nothing more precious to her in the World, then unstayned loyaltie to her The Decameron
I may or may not succeed in the attempt to elucidate the "artfulness" of these devices, but I am trying to put Affliction itself in a context that will, I hope, provide the reader with a richer experience when reading this novel. Principles of Literary Criticism
` ` affliction may gie him a jagg, and let the wind out o 'him, as out o' a cow that's eaten wet clover, and the lad may do weel, and be a burning and a shining light; and I trust it will be yours to see, and his to feel it, and that soon. '' The Heart of Mid-Lothian
This zero-sum politics is an affliction of the left. Times, Sunday Times
I know that, in 10 years, cancer will be an affliction, but not one that sends fear in all of us.
_They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the afflictions and lusts -- HAVE crucified_. Sermons on Various Important Subjects
But, if he take all discontents 'on this side adultery' to be common, that is to say, not difficult to endure, and to affect only 'unstaid minds,' it might administer just cause to think him the unfittest man that could be to offer at a comment upon Job, as seeming by this to have no more true sense of a good man in his afflictions than those Edomitish friends had, of whom Job complains, and against whom God testifies his anger. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
Believing himself capable of curing his affliction with poultices and antiseptics, he had only delayed the inevitable visit to the doctor's office.
God, whose plan is ineffable, foreordained that the heart of Jesus would be stricken with seven afflictions.
The word also means a narrowing of the eyes so that you can get a clearer view, and an affliction where the eyes are not in line.
The affliction — superior canal dehiscence syndrome — was unknown until ten years ago. The Sun
The veteran blueliner suffered a lower body affliction during Saturday's loss and missed the third period.
Believing himself capable of curing his affliction with poultices and antiseptics, he had only delayed the inevitable visit to the doctor's office.
These new plans also appear to face squarely the fact that extreme departmentalism is an unfortunate affliction that withers everything truly educational that comes under its shadow and should, therefore, be removed. Undergraduate Work and the University of North Carolina
Revelation 6: 6: from whence, among other arguments, it may be reasonably supposed, that that chapter treats of the plagues and afflictions that should forerun the destruction of Jerusalem, and, indeed, the destruction and overthrow itself. From the Talmud and Hebraica
The afflictions of a person suffering from terminal cancer were poignantly portrayed in the film, which also dwelt on the strengths of holistic medicine.
The patriarchal medicine of the 19th century believed that femaleness in itself was a disease, and puberty, pregnancy and menopause were considered horrible afflictions that prevented women from being educated or working.
And what an unworthy wife must I be to any man who cannot have interest enough in my heart to make his obligingness a balance for an affliction he has not caused! Clarissa Harlowe
This is a common affliction of fibreglass. Times, Sunday Times
Their common affliction was gout, an arthritic condition that causes spells of intense pain, most often in the big toe.
Human head lice, known as pediculosis capitis, are an ancient affliction that affects people around the world, particularly schoolchildren. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Affliction upon me In my old Age: and Acording to our best observation we could not decern that shee knewe what we came for before we tould her Rebecca Nurse Collection: Israel Forter, Elizabeth Porter, Daniel Andrew & Peter Cloyce For Rebecca Nurse
This is a common affliction of fibreglass. Times, Sunday Times
Her afflictions, visions, and ecstasies began to spread her fame on the winds of the Catholic Awakening movement that was gaining force at the time.
Having read the verses of blessings he sought benediction, and after reading the verses of affliction he trembled.
How great is this affliction? ALEXANDER THE CORRECTOR
But, "added he, at seeing the old woman's uneasiness at his discourse," affliction may gie him a jagg, and let the wind out o 'him, as out o' a cow that's eaten wet clover, and the lad may do weel, and be a burning and a shining light; and I trust it will be yours to see, and his to feel it, and that soon. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
We start out thinking of these afflictions as separate agonies.
What reward can those expect who preach Christ out of strife, and envy, and contention, and to add affliction to a faithful minister's bonds? who preach in pretence, and not in truth? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

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