Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who afflicts or causes pain of body or of mind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who afflicts.
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- noun One who afflicts.
Etymologies
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Examples
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To anyone reading who has been afflicted by or is an afflicter of cowardly cyber communication, take a stand for human connection!
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For the latter afflicter, the king of Assyria, had carried away that country also into banishment and bonds, 1 Chronicles 5: 26.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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He is a great afflicter of the high-ways, and beats them out of measure; which injury is sometimes revenged by the purse-taker, and then the voyage miscarries.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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O my son, O afflicter of foes, thou knowest in fact everything relating to this world.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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'Having come before the king that afflicter of foes, Sahadeva answered in accents deep as the roar of the cloud,' I am a Vaisya, Arishtanemi by name.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Karna of immeasurable soul, I did not immediately place myself under orders of that afflicter of hostile ranks.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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O afflicter of thy foes, in compensation for all this vast misery wrought by Dhritarashtra's son, thou wilt attain to proportional happiness after having killed thy foes, O great king, O lord of men, the ways of the world are known to thee.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Demand requital of Haman and not of Thy people, for he sought to annihilate us all at one stroke, he, the enemy and afflicter of Thy people, whom he endeavors to hem in on all sides.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 Louis Ginzberg 1913
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And then it follows, chapter 9: 1, "For the dimness shall not be like to that wherein it was ill with him, at what time the former [afflicter] lightly touched the land of Zabulon, and the land of
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Reverence to the leaf and to him who is in the fall of the leaf, the threatener, the slayer, the vexer and the afflicter. "
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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