affriction
English
Etymology
Latin affricare to rub on. See friction.
Noun
affriction (plural affrictions)
- (obsolete) The act of rubbing against.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for affriction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)