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Definition of Afflicters
1. afflicter [n] - See also: afflicter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afflicters
Literary usage of Afflicters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1853)
"... 'My good lord, would you lift up thy face (line 15) to Chons who makes
contention, the great god, the chaser away of afflicters, that he should go to ..."
2. On the Return of the Phoenix and the Sothic Period by Samuel Sharpe (1850)
"... 'My good lord, would you lift up thy face (line 15) to Chons who makes
contention, the great god, the chaser away of afflicters, that he should go to ..."
3. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1895)
"... policie of this Realme of England, But are rather of contrarie dispositions,
and afflicters or at the leaste ..."
4. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1858)
"... or Quakers perswasion, have been complained of, to be Accusers, or Accused,
afflicters, or Afflicted ..."
5. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"... for we are all one body together, who are of this faith, as Heb. xi. And now
see if ye professors have not been the stoners, afflicters, ..."
6. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1905)
"... seeks for safety, he Retreating leaves the scattered herd—to be Their own
afflicters ; and hastes thence to find Him to whom fortune proved so strangely ..."
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