afflictionless

adj

afflictionless

adj

Etymology From affliction + -less.

1

Free from affliction.

  • […] he always had a loosened tooth or a cut finger to show to particular friends, which he did with a complacent air of being thereby elevated above the common herd of afflictionless humanity […]1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 9, in Far from the Madding Crowd, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, pages 124–125:
  • […] unearthly cries as if spirits clustered in every clod of earth, feeling and needing those cries, that expiation, as though from it[,] all would be resolved into a bright, afflictionless paradise.1996, Edna O’Brien, Down by the River,, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 216:

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