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Definition of Afflictively
1. adv. In an afflictive manner.
Definition of Afflictively
1. Adverb. In an afflictive manner ¹
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Definition of Afflictively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afflictively
Literary usage of Afflictively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence by Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin (1835)
"And this is also the unhappiness of himself, who having acted his first part in
heaven, is made sharply miserable by transition, and more afflictively feels ..."
2. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"And this the fallen angels severely understand, who having acted their first part
in Heaven, are made sharply miserable by transition, and more afflictively ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Indeed it, from a very early stage of the business, becomes afflictively apparent,
how much the Editor, so well furnished with all external appliances and ..."
4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"1737. in a recruiting case that had fallen out there, and brought matters to a
head.9 The Kaiser too was afflictively high in countenancing the Bishop ;—for ..."
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