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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive;

as, an

afflicting

event

. – Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.

ppr.

Causing continued or durable pain of body or mind; grieving; distressing.

Adj.

Grievous; distressing; as, an afflicting event.

afflicting

afflicting ‎(plural afflictings)

An affliction.
- 1825, William Haslett, ‎John Flavel, The Advices and Meditations (page 193)
  And so usual a thing it is for gracious hearts to be humbled under the afflictings of God, that affliction is upon that score called humiliation.