afflictive

Example Sentences

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The standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners state: "Prison labour must not be of an afflictive nature."

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2019

L’Heureux’s own expertise is in our sites of afflictive potential.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019

This of course was in direct violation of the General’s orders, but was no less afflictive to the poor sufferers on this account.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2019

It will easily be conceived how afflictive such a dispensation must have been to him who had to bear it.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William

The refuge of the believer, amidst all the afflictive dispensations of Providence, is that the Lord reigneth, and that He can restrain the arm of man.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail