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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

afflictif

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

“Jove’s afflictive hand.”

Pope.

Spreads slow disease, and darts

afflictive

pain.

Prior.

Adj.

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; painful; distressing.

afflictive ‎(comparative more afflictive, superlative most afflictive)

That causes physical or mental pain

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that causes physical or mental pain

afflictive