affliction
part of speech
noun (affliction, afflictions)
meaning for a pupil
Great suffering, trouble or sadness, such as a serious illness or a grief that will not go away. tree →
sense in the lessons
in tales, the sorrow or illness that a person suffers, which others try to ease
examples
- There is much affliction in this world. tree →
- She was under a grievous affliction. tree →
- I can end your affliction with this potion. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
- God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.'
- And the name of the second called he Ephraim: 'for God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.'
- Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.
- The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
- I see the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian do tremble.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «affliction» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.