different between afflict vs oversorrow

English

Etymology

From Old French aflicter, from Latin afflictare (“to damage, harass, torment”), frequentative of affligere (“to dash down, overthrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??fl?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: af?flict

Verb

afflict (third-person singular simple present afflicts, present participle afflicting, simple past and past participle afflicted)

1. (transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
2. (obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
3. (obsolete) To make low or humble.

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   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.

Related terms

• affliction
• afflictive

Translations

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??fl?k(t)/

Verb

afflict (third-person singular present afflicts, present participle afflictin, past afflictit, past participle afflictit)

1. to afflict

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Etymology

over- +? sorrow

Verb

oversorrow (third-person singular simple present oversorrows, present participle oversorrowing, simple past and past participle oversorrowed)

1. (transitive, rare) To grieve or afflict excessively.
   • 1826 (original 1643), John Milton, Francis Jenks, A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton:

     He, therefore, who by adventuring shall be so happy as with success to light the way of such an expedient liberty and truth as this, shall restore the much-wronged and over-sorrowed state of matrimony, not only to those merciful and lifegiving remedies of Moses, but as much as may be, to that serene and blissful condition it was in at the beginning, and shall deserve of all [...]

   • 1818, Annabella Plumptre, Tales of wonder, of humour, and of sentiment:

     " Ah, Sophia, how you overjoy me!" " Let Riberac take care that I shall not have oversorrowed myself."

Derived terms

• oversorrowed
• oversorrowing