| 单词 |
infliction |
| 释义 |
infliction|ɪnˈflɪkʃən|
[ad. late L. inflictiōn-em, n. of action f. inflīgĕre to inflict. Cf. F. infliction (1486 in Godef. Compl.).]
The action of inflicting (pain, punishment, annoyance, etc.); in quot. 1603, the fact of being inflicted.
1534More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1216/2 The terror and infliccion of intollerable payne and torment. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. iii. 28 Our Decrees, Dead to infliction, to themselues are dead. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxviii. 163 In declared Hostility, all infliction of evill is lawfull. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 19 The infliction of such exemplary punishment. 1832Lewis Use & Ab. Pol. 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’.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. v. ii, Our expressless bann'd inflictions. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. (1848) 58 Distress'd by such Persecutions, as seem to be Divine Inflictions. 1834H. Martineau Farrers ii. 21 He was aware that few inflictions could be so dreadful to his father. 1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne II. x. 213 What an infliction he must be! |
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