The word 'afflictions' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to illnesses, hardships, or burdens inflicted upon someone. For example, "The refugees in the camp were suffering from a variety of afflictions, including malnutrition, dehydration, and a slew of infectious diseases."
Elisabeth takes exception to this suggestion, remarking that her "body imbued with a large part of the weaknesses of my sex … is afflicted very easily by the afflictions of the soul" (Elisabeth to Descartes, 24 May 1645, AT IV 208, Shapiro 2007 88).
Unfortunately, the mental scars and the afflictions of those who have been injured, those whose homes have been destroyed and those whose livelihoods have been adversely affected by these wholly unacceptable events, may never fully heal.
More broadly, there is concern that common human afflictions – sadness, melancholia, ennui – are being turned into medical conditions and then treated with pills.
When there's a mother involved, such afflictions can be a form of child abuse.
But they are more virulent than the economic afflictions that sap growth in the north of Italy.
But Dr Murray also confirmed what previous work suggested: that in most of the world now, the main afflictions are those you cannot catch from other people or mosquitoes.
Africa will suffer less from these afflictions than it otherwise would.
Both afflictions are symptoms of mismanagement at the top.
First, the industry has managed to persuade governments and insurers that new vaccines against afflictions such as papilloma virus and pneumococcal disease would be worth $100 or more, rather than the standard few dollars a jab, since they would help prevent diseases that would be much more expensive to treat.
Barring accidents, therefore, most people now go on until they die of one of the afflictions of ripe old age, such as cardiovascular disease or cancer.
Some may say that this, too, is one of the "afflictions of liberty".
