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Definition of Afflicted
1. Adjective. Grievously affected especially by disease.
2. Adjective. Mentally or physically unfit.
Definition of Afflicted
1. Verb. (past of afflict) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Afflicted
1. afflict [v] - See also: afflict
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afflicted
Literary usage of Afflicted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of by Cotton Mather, Increase Mather (1862)
"... even with a Touch of their Hand, when Strangled, and otherwise Tortured ; and
would endeavour to get to their afflicted, to relieve them. 3. ..."
2. The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of by Cotton Mather, Increase Mather (1862)
"OP THINGS MORE THAN ORDINARY ABOUT THE afflicted PERSONS. 1. They are in their
Fits tempted to be Witches, are '. shewed the List of the Names of others, ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"No owner of the said Collie so alleged to be afflicted shall be capable of making
such an order or anyone else, except under such provisions as hereafter ..."
4. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"... that I am never to hear from her, perhaps never to see her again, I do not
feel so very, very much afflicted as one would have thought. ..."
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