afflation

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A blowing or breathing on.

   “Stirred by the winds of some unseen afflation, he becomes restless .”

2. isim Spiritual inspiration.

   “but on the other side, the frequent testimonies of the Spirit's revealing by way of prophetic afflation, who should be set appart for the offices of the church, are evidences that it was so here.”

3. isim Enthusiasm; strength of feeling; emotionality.

   “These Memoirs are introduced by a Preface written by the Author's brother, with considerable elegance and feeling, though by no means devoid of that afflation of style and display of sentiment, which are the great defects of modern Irish eloquence.·”

4. isim A pneumotoxic infection.

   “Regarding the afflation of pharyngeal lymphoids, simple as all agree that this is in skilled hands, opinions differ widely as to the best technique.”