afflictionlessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

affliction +‎ -less

形容詞

afflictionless (comparative more afflictionless, superlative most afflictionless)

1. Free from affliction.

   Synonym: unafflicted

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Chapter 9, pp. 124-125,^[1]

     […] 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 […]

   • 1996, Edna O’Brien, Down by the River, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 216,^[2]

     […] 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.