But the euil of the paine or the punishment of sin, or any kynde of afflictiue aduersitie, is not (in it self) absolutely euil, or simply to be fled from or auoyded.
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Afflictive
Synonyms for "afflictive" (68 found)
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10 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- болезнен adj (that causes physical or mental pain)
- мъчителен adj (that causes physical or mental pain)
Catalan
2 entries- aflictiu adj (that causes physical or mental pain)
- afligidor adj (that causes physical or mental pain)
Czech
1 entries- trápivý adj (that causes physical or mental pain)
French
1 entries- afflictif adj (that causes physical or mental pain)
Ido
1 entries- afliktiva adj (that causes physical or mental pain)
Italian
1 entries- afflittivo adj (that causes physical or mental pain)
Portuguese
1 entries- aflitivo adj (that causes physical or mental pain)
Spanish
1 entries- aflictivo adj (that causes physical or mental pain)
Sample sentences
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All this from Jove’s afflictive Hand we bear: Who, far from Argos, wills our Ruin here.
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1847, Anne Brontë (as Acton Bell), Agnes Grey, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, Volume 3, Chapter 3, p. 54, In my childhood I could not imagine a more afflictive punishment than for my mother to refuse to kiss me at night: the very idea was terrible;
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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
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