Affliction in example sentence

If thy beauty despises me, if thy worth is not for me, if thy scorn is my affliction, though I be sufficiently long-suffering, hardly shall I endure this anxiety, which, besides being oppressive, is protracted.

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I'm telling you this story because Archie Cochrane, all his life, fought against a terrible affliction, and he realized it was debilitating to individuals and it was corrosive to societies.

I'm going to tell you about an affliction I suffer from.

I have always loved the fact that my hood and my affliction share the same initials.

This is a horrible affliction on all women that live in those countries.

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