单词 | infliction |
释义 | inflictionn. a. The action of inflicting (pain, punishment, annoyance, etc.); in quot. a1616, the fact of being inflicted. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [noun] > action of inflicting punishingc1375 punition1405 executionc1430 justifying1487 inflictiona1535 animadversion1535 penalization1888 woodshedding1940 the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > cause of > action of causing afflictionc1330 visitationc1380 grievinga1398 inflictiona1535 straiting1591 straitening1598 the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun] > action of causing afflictionc1330 grievinga1398 inflictiona1535 traumatization1935 a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. ii. sig. N.viii The terror and infliccion of intollerable paine and tormente. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iii. 28 Our Decrees, Dead to infliction, to themselues are dead. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxviii. 163 In declared Hostility, all infliction of evill is lawfull. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 19 The infliction of such exemplary punishment. 1832 G. C. Lewis Remarks Use & Abuse Polit. Terms i. 17 To punish..by the infliction of pain. b. An instance of this; something inflicted, as pain, punishment, etc., or in weaker sense, an annoyance, a nuisance, a ‘visitation’. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [noun] justice?a1160 penancec1300 defensiona1382 forfeiture1390 punishment1402 revengementa1513 penition1547 revenge1561 infliction1590 supplice1646 vindictive1726 auto-da-fé1767 woodshedding1940 knuckle-rapping1944 the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > circumstance or occurrence plightc1300 woea1325 fanda1400 afflictionc1429 assayc1430 brier?1504 trouble?1521 distress1549 smarts1552 say?1572 infliction1590 disaccommodation1645 trial1754 ordeal1807 time1809 kill-cow1825 Via Crucis1844 Via Dolorosa1844 racket1877 pisser1957 the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun] sorrowOE ail?c1225 scorpion?c1225 dolec1290 angera1325 anguishc1330 cupa1340 aggrievancea1400 discomfortc1405 afflictionc1429 sytec1440 pressurea1500 constraint1509 tenterhook1532 grief1535 annoying1566 troubler1567 griper1573 vexation1588 infliction1590 trouble1591 temptationc1595 load1600 torment1600 wringer1602 sorance1609 inflicting1611 brusha1616 freighta1631 woe-heart1637 ordeala1658 cut-up1782 unpleasure1792 iron maiden1870 mental cruelty1899 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > cause of annoyance or vexation thornc1230 dreicha1275 painc1375 cumbrance1377 diseasec1386 a hair in one's necka1450 molestationc1460 incommodity?a1475 melancholya1475 ensoigne1477 annoyance1502 traik1513 incommode1518 corsie1548 eyesore1548 fashery1558 cross1573 spite1577 corrosive1578 wasp1588 cumber1589 infliction1590 gall1591 distaste1602 plague1604 rub1642 disaccommodation1645 disgust1654 annoyment1659 bogle1663 rubber1699 noyancea1715 chagrins1716 ruffle1718 fasha1796 nuisance1814 vex1815 drag1857 bugbear1880 nark1918 pain in the neck (also arse, bum, etc.)1933 sod1940 chizz1953 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E6 Our expresslesse band inflictions. 1665 R. Boyle Disc. iv. iii, in Occas. Refl. sig. E7v Distress'd by such Persecutions, as seem to be Divine Inflictions. 1834 H. Martineau Farrers of Budge-Row ii. 21 He was aware that few inflictions could be so dreadful to his father. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. x. 213 What an infliction he must be! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.a1535 |
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