afflictive (afliktiv)

[F. afflict if, nature of an affliction: as, an afflictive dis amictiv pens at i on of Providence. We consider with the most afflictive anguish the pain which we have given and now cannot alleviate. Johnson, Rambler, No. 54. Many that want food and clothing have cheerier lives and brighter prospects than she had; many, hara ed by poverty, are in a strait le afflictive. Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, xiii. =Syn. Afflicting, grievous, calamitous, disastrous, oppre ive, severe, unhappy, trying. endowed with this divining quality. Add is on, Spectator, No. 7. Nature, oppre 'd and hara 'd out with care, Sinks down to rest. Add is on , Cato, v. 1. The sight of any of the house of York Is as a fury to torment my soul. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., i. 3. afflictt (a-flikt'), p. a. [In earlier form a flight, q. v.; The life of man upon earth is nothing else than a "warfare" and continual aflict with her ghostly enemies. Becon , Fasting (ed. 1844), p. 542. (N. E. D.) afflicted ne (a-flik'ted-nes), n. The state of being afflicted; affliction. Thou art deceived if thou think est that God delights in the a flic ted ne of his creatures. Bp . Hall , Balm of Gilead, ii. § 6. afflicter (a-flik'ter), n. One who afflicts or causes pain of body or of mind. afflictingly (a-flik'ting-li), adv. In an afflicting manner.