AFFLICTIVE

AFFLICT'IVE, adjective Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; painful; distressing.

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afflictive. Afflictive, a. distressing, painful, grievous

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Af‐flic″tive (�), a. [[Cf. F. afflictif.]] Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. “Jove's afflictive hand.” Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.