Definition of "afflictions" []

• Plural form of affliction. (noun)

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• "Another sufferer is "desahuiciado with lamparones y empeines," severe skin afflictions, but he, too, is cured after the holy soil is rubbed on him, as is another man who is suffering from "one hundred and ten sores.""
• "And the most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being."
• "I call my afflictions light ones and am embarrassed to include them on a page that speaks of the four girls who perished in a Sunday-school classroom."