Converse of object
endure: Our merit and progress consist not in many pleasures and comforts but rather in enduring great afflictions and sufferings.
suffer: By late 1760 Mary was in Portsmouth suffering an affliction she had for most of her life.
see: Expect to see some affliction on the angles of the chart.
have: It is also a lesson to people who have an affliction.
know: Every January groups of men and women, around 60 in all, become prone to a strange affliction known as square-eyed syndrome.
bear: Do you feel in that state of mind that you could bear any affliction which might befall you, without repining?
Adjective modifier
bodily: The prophets were not preserved from bodily afflictions in which category sorcery falls.
terrible: For most of my life, I had this terrible affliction.
sore: But that since he lost his books much too well, so God had sharply chastised him by this sore affliction ' .
severe: During her later years, she was subject to severe unspecified domestic afflictions.
mental: When we suffer from bodily pain there is bound to be mental affliction as well.
common: In Britain, leprosy was a relatively common affliction in the early medieval period.
Noun used with modifier
mine: I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 10:16 For it increaseth.
skin: An oil obtained from the inner bark is astringent and is used in the treatment of various skin afflictions, especially eczema and psoriasis.
Preposition: of
life: The afflictions of life are about what goes on inside.
righteous: Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.
other: Walter Daniel also mentions the afflictions of others whom, he claims, were miraculously alleviated of their suffering by the venerable abbot.
inequality: Wilkinson, R. , Unhealthy Societies: the afflictions of inequality, London, Routledge, ( 1996 ).
Preposition: with
curse: The relation between affliction with curses or sorcery and the social-economic milieu in which they occur is also considered.
Preposition: by
rod: The Lord is my Portion 'I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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affliction Quotes
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget! How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, And love th'offender, yet detest th'offence? How the dear object from the crime remove, Or how distinguish penitence from love? 659
—Pope, Alexander
Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
—Pascal, Blaise
And Isaid,My strengthand my hope isperished fromthe L: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
—Bible (Old Testament)
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
—Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
—Nash, (Frederic) Ogden