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afflictive

adj

Etymology

From afflict + -ive.

  1. derived from afflictāre — “to damage, harass, torment”
  2. inherited from afflicten
  3. suffixed as afflictive — “afflict + ive”

Definitions

  1. That causes physical or mental pain.

    • But the euil of the paine or the punishment of sin, or any kynde of afflictiue aduersitie, is not (in it self) absolutely euil, or simply to be fled from or auoyded.
    • All this from Jove’s afflictive Hand we bear: Who, far from Argos, wills our Ruin here.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at afflictive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at afflictive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at afflictive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA