The act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
1 That night we were spared the customary infliction of the shower bath.
2 His face was a puckered protest at the infliction of animal life.
3 To find me so comfortable under the infliction perplexed and disconcerted him.
4 The lance of Montgomery had not yet rid France of that infliction .
5 Neither threat of hell nor the infliction of physical punishment has availed.
6 Jonas has been violent, too, but more in the nature of self - infliction .
7 The utter outrageousness of this new infliction brought tears to her eyes.
8 Under the severest infliction of punishment she was not allowed to complain.
9 Even to the infliction of necessary suffering he had an extreme dislike.
10 Imprisonment involves the deliberate infliction of pain through the deprivation of liberty.
11 His books harassed him like illnesses, and he groaned under the infliction .
12 He admits that there is useless vivisection and unnecessary infliction of pain.
13 The silence that had fallen on them again, became an unendurable infliction .
14 Mauser Wound of Entrance, a little more than 48 hours after infliction .
15 I have had my joke and you've borne the infliction becomingly enough.
16 That is a small infliction which you can well afford to bear.
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