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What does affliction mean?

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Noun
  1. A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
  2. Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
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He also wants to make a point about human suffering and affliction, which he does by bringing out the allegorical significance of the story.
Anger, it should be noted, has etymological roots both in trouble, grief and affliction.
The commandments that they propagate to prevent cancer highlight the importance of diet in warding off the affliction.
The Standard joins the many friends of the bereaved children in extending consolation and sympathy in their great affliction.
In 1977 my affliction was formally labeled a form of juvenile rheumatoid crippling arthritis.
I know that, in 10 years, cancer will be an affliction, but not one that sends fear in all of us.

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