Affliction | Define Affliction at Dictionary.com

noun 1. a state of pain, distress, or grief; misery: They sympathized with us in our affliction. 2. a cause of mental or bodily pain, as sickness, loss, calamity, or ... c.1300, from O.Fr. aflicion, from L. afflictionem (nom. afflictio), noun of action fr

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