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Verb edit

afflicting

  1. present participle and gerund of afflict

Noun edit

afflicting (plural afflictings)

  1. 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.