Sentence example with the word 'infliction'

infliction

affliction, burden of care, condign punishment, destruction, freighting, judgment, oppression, penology, running sore, unwarranted demand

Definition n. the act of imposing something

Last update: September 27, 2015


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Together with the kings and ephors it formed the supreme executive committee of the state, and it exercised also a considerable criminal and political jurisdiction, including the trial of kings; its competence extended to the infliction of a sentence of exile or even of death.   [Please select]

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Why this infliction.   [Please select]

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I spare you the infliction in full.   [Please select]

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Unable to support its terrible infliction, she acknowledged that 'she was guilty,' and, without further trial, was hung.   [Please select]

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Its sleep is troubled and broken; its waking moments are rendered miserable by this terrible infliction.   [Please select]

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His books harassed him like illnesses, and he groaned under the infliction.   [Please select]

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