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afflictive example sentences
afflictive
1. activity, and as such it can become afflictive in the long run
2. "By this afflictive dispensation of Divine Providence the Senate is deprived of a President rendered dear to each of its members by the dignity and impartiality with which he has so long presided over their deliberations; and the nation bereaved of one of the brightest luminaries of its glorious Revolution