Meanings of afflict humanity in English

Physical ailments are not the worst form of suffering that afflict humanity.

Pale faces, disordered nerves, dyspepsia, melancholia, anæmia, all the troop of ills that afflict humanity, marching for ever into his room!

Rousseau declared that all the evils which afflict humanity arise from vicious, artificial arrangements, such as the Family, the Church, and the State.

Sin is the sickness, as it is also the grief, which most afflicts humanity.

The Pope said that five plagues were now afflicting humanity.

Still are left amongst us the bases of all the diseases that, up to the present hour, have afflicted humanity.

By this current of thought was gradually developed one of the greatest masses of superstitious cruelty that has ever afflicted humanity.

Because of this, hostility and hatred surrounded mankind; discord, rancor and warfare afflicted humanity; blood overspread the horizons of the eastern world.

The hirelings, the blind guides, that have misled and afflicted humanity for so many weary ages, shall be all sunk in oblivion.

Madam, - James Moran asks (July 29th) if there can be any doubt that religion is the greatest curse afflicting humanity.

'There shall no plague come nigh thy dwelling'-andyet we are smitten down by all the woes that afflict humanity.

For people growing up in the '40s and '50s most of the diseases that had afflicted humanity for millennia had been cured.