afflicting
English edit
Verb edit
afflicting
- present participle and gerund of afflict
Noun edit
afflicting (plural afflictings)
- An affliction.
- 1825, William Haslett, John Flavel, The Advices and Meditations, page 193:
- 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.