afflation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin afflatus, past participle of afflare (“to blow or breathe on”), from ad + flare (“to blow”).
Noun
[edit]afflation (plural afflations)
- A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.
- 1922, Thomas Hardy, “An Experience”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 111:
- But there was a new afflation— / An aura zephyring round, / That care infected not: [...]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “afflation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)