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afflation

Meaning of "afflation" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF AFFLATION

əˈfleɪʃən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AFFLATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Afflation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AFFLATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of afflation in the English dictionary

The definition of afflation in the dictionary is the inspiration or influence of someone or something.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AFFLATION

anti-inflation · compilation · conflation · deflation · disinflation · hyperinflation · inflation · installation · insufflation · legislation · overinflation · population · reflation · reinflation · relation · slumpflation · stagflation · sufflation · translation · underinflation

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AFFLATION

affixture · afflated · afflatus · afflict · afflicted · afflicter · afflicting · affliction · afflictive · afflictively · affluence · affluency · affluent · affluent society · affluential · affluently · affluentness · affluenza · afflux · affluxion

WORDS THAT END LIKE AFFLATION

accreditation · action · administration · animation · application · association · certification · citation · combination · communication · confirmation · conversation · corporation · creation · decoration · destination · documentation · duration · education · evaluation · excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of afflation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «afflation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AFFLATION

Find out the translation of afflation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of afflation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «afflation» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

afflation
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

afflation
570 millions of speakers
en

English

afflation
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

afflation
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

afflation
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

озарения
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

afflation
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

afflation
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

afflation
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Penderitaan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

afflation
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

afflation
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

afflation
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Afflation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

afflation
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

afflation
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

नैराश्य
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

afflation
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

afflation
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

afflation
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

осяяння
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

afflation
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

afflation
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afflation
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

afflation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

afflation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of afflation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AFFLATION»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of afflation
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «afflation».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about afflation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AFFLATION»

Discover the use of afflation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to afflation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Annotations
Some kind of extraordinary revelation it certainly was, but whether in a vision by appearance of an angel, or, sdly, by a voice from heaven, or, 3dly, by afflation of the Spirit of God, after the manner that prophets received revelations, it is ...
Henry Hammond, 1845
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The Calcutta Review
That one breathed without afflation. Apart from its illusory adjunct the absolute ego has no breath, as the text says: Without vital air, without cogitant organ, pure. Breathing is literally predicable only of the personal or illusion- limited ego. When  ...
E. Lethbridge, 1876
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The Calcutta Review
Did the wide and deep waters exist ? At that time death was not, nor immortality. Distinction between night and day was not. There was the only ONE, who was alive and was breathing without afflation. He sustained his own self and stood in  ...
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The court of the gentiles: or a discours touching the ...
AffUtio*. p,( t a Divine power, or Afflation ; such as was in Euripides'* his stone, called M*>r«Ti«, »»» { faith he ) x) S Mi« i*a/»< P- mtZ tufiii, „V rfcf it- &ta» TttfT«» AK^cuv ir$\tfia£itntt i(ua$i( i*iptttm > Plato Jo, {61. 533. Whence headdes , star P« f/ ...
Theophil Gale, 1672
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Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta
At 100° F. and in a perfectly damp atmosphere, there occurs an absolute stagnation of the air surrounding the living body : but as air of that temperature is never naturally saturated with moisture, afflation still affords relief by applying air  ...
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EPIPHANIES OF THE RISEN LORD
1. ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. The inspiration in Eden was the symbolic infusion of the spiritual principle : the afflation in Jerusalem was the symbolic effusion of spiritual power.
GEORGE DANA BOARDMAN, 1879
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Garner's Modern American Usage
[read no].” Jonathan Schell, “American Democracy Defines Itself,” Newsday (N.Y. ), 1 Dec. 1996, at A34. Cf. yes & no. afflatus; *afflation; *inflatus. For the sense “ inspiration” or “supernatural impulse,” afflatus is the standard—though rare—term .
Bryan Garner, 2009
8
Pleiade Poetics
merque, ne chante ses vers et carmes autrement que excité de la vigueur de son esprit, et inspiré de quelque divine afflation'. Through its own harmony, in fact, poetry participates in the divine harmony which sustains the universe — this is ...
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Creativity and Spirituality: Bonds between Art and Religion
Usually, this state of readiness or acceptance precedes the mystic's illumination and the artist's inspiration or afflation. After the New England Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller exclaimed, "I accept the universe," Thomas Carlyle replied, "Gad!
Earle Jerome Coleman, 1998
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... disjoin ant detach afflation n syn INSPIRATION, afflatus, inflatus afflatus n syn INSPIRATION, afflation, inflatus afflict vb to inflict upon one something hard to endure <he was afflicted with boils > syn agonize, crucify, excruciate, harrow, martyr, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AFFLATION»

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Making Sense
When Buehler campaigned last year, he proudly stated his afflation with the Republican Party, but also went out of his way to identify his ... «The Source Weekly, Apr 15»
2
What Tim Willcox's Paris Question Says About BBC
A three-minute report from Jerusalem on the News at Ten has become a kind of Rorschach test where your afflation, sympathy or allegiance ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Jan 15»
3
Will Narendra Modi make it as the first low caste PM?
Sonia did have a nebulous, Brahmin afflation but Manmohan Singh was outside the caste framework. Lal Bahadur Shastri, Charan Singh, V.P. ... «ummid.com, Feb 14»
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Somaliland: An open letter to Bashiir Nuur-Bidaar
These are men under Satan afflation incorrigible villains, who are still helplessly chasing the lost General Barre's past glorious through an ... «Somaliland Sun, Sep 12»
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The real reason SP swept Uttar Pradesh
... Indian in the interest of the larger Indian nation, and will tell the Muslim community that their first afflation is to their country India, which gives ... «Daily News & Analysis, Mar 12»
REFERENCE
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