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afflictings

afflictings is the plural of afflicting.

Meaning of afflicting

Noun

afflicting (plural afflictings)

  1. An affliction.
    • And so usual a thing it is for gracious hearts to be humbled under the afflictings of God, that affliction is upon that score called humiliation.1825, William Haslett, John Flavel, The Advices and Meditations, page 193

Questions about afflictings

What is afflictings the plural of?
Afflictings is the plural of afflicting.

Words near afflictings in the dictionary

  1. afflicters
  2. afflictest
  3. afflicteth
  4. afflicting
  5. afflictingly
  6. afflictings
  7. affliction
  8. afflictionless
  9. afflictions
  10. afflictive
  11. afflictively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: afflictings (page history and authors); afflicting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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