The phrase "afflicted soul" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is suffering emotionally or spiritually, often conveying a sense of deep distress or turmoil.
Example: "The poet often wrote about the struggles of the afflicted soul, capturing the pain and longing for peace in his verses."
Alternatives: "troubled spirit" or "tormented individual."
A Text… And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday.
His job is to identify the bad spirits that are attaching themselves to the juus (soul) of a person, and by placing himself in a trance he is able to purify the afflicted soul.
On a cool, drizzly day 10 years ago, I met a lonely, afflicted soul in downtown Los Angeles who would eventually take me to places I'd never visited.
If they all sounded so operatically goofy, who exactly is it that Lestat and his similarly afflicted souls thought they were hiding their identities from?
She reports strong interest in the Middle East and China, and across Europe.Support clubs for female sufferers have emerged all over the world; in Australia, there is an e-community of afflicted souls called ADDventurous Women.
You occasionally see other afflicted souls on the shoulders of rural South Jersey county roads in the summer, getting out of their cars with their backpacks, field guides, and wide-brimmed hats, earning incredulous looks from the motorists making their way to the Jersey Shore but the fact is that their ranks are aging and their numbers are dwindling.
Then, as blackness descends once more, I return to ground level for a stroll around the main streets which, with their heart-shaped lights and chocolate-box clapboard houses, exude the kind of understated festive warmth that this jaded, Oxford Street-afflicted soul had all but forgotten.
The Bible commands Jews to "afflict your soul" on Yom Kippur as a sign of atonement, and while it does not specifically mention fasting, the commandment has come down to mean acts of repentance like fasting, the wearing of leatherless shoes and abstinence from sexual relations.
Today, on the day we are literally told to "afflict our soul," I am forcing myself to recall my feelings in the freshman dining hall and my short friendship with Regina.
Of the many joys and miseries that buoyed or afflicted Oscar Wilde's soul, becoming a practicing Catholic was not one.
In 16th-century portraits, the head resting on hand pose was to become a universal image of the soul afflicted by sad thoughts – as in Moretto da Brescia's Portrait of a Young Man in London's National Gallery.
