"infliction" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used when referring to a person or thing that causes or is suffering from something, like a punishment, injury, or disease. For example: "The doctor said there was no cure for the infliction he had contracted."
He was opening Bailey's action against the Garda commissioner and state for alleged wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, conspiracy, assault and intentional infliction of emotional and psychological suffering.
In America, they may sue for the "intentional infliction of emotional distress".
Rising rates of mental illness among the young, she argues, reflect readier diagnosis, and bullying has increased because the word is now used to mean the infliction of even the slightest emotional bruise.
Last year Mrs Merkel raised her voice in defence of male circumcision after a local court in Cologne ruled that the circumcision of young boys amounted to the illegal infliction of bodily harm.
They want ritual infant circumcision banned as a traumatic and anachronistic abuse of babies' bodies.In this section Odd bedfellows Paradise losses Trending times ReprintsA court in another German city, Cologne, ruled three months ago that circumcision of infants and young boys was the illegal infliction of bodily harm.
The latter was to be publicly degraded, and his man bastinadoed, as demanded by the British Consul, but owing to the excitement occasioned by the affair of the French flag, Mr Young deemed it expedient to defer the infliction of the penalty for some days.The United StatesGreat preparations are being made by the Democratic party for the coming Presidential contest.
Britannica defines torture as the "infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering for a purpose, such as extracting information, coercing a confession, or inflicting punishment".
Sadism, psychosexual disorder in which sexual urges are gratified by the infliction of pain on another person.
Cruelty to animals, Willful or wanton infliction of pain, suffering, or death upon an animal or the intentional or malicious neglect of an animal.
The first example of the alleged miraculous infliction of stigmata occurred in St. Francis of Assisi.
The level and extent of sadistic violence may vary considerably, from infliction of mild pain in otherwise harmless love play to extreme brutality, sometimes leading to serious injury or death.
