afflictionlessadj.
/əˈflɪkʃnlᵻs/, U.S. /əˈflɪkʃ(ə)nlᵻs/ rare.
Free from affliction.
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soundc1175
hailc1275
unfect?1504
unsick?1536
sicklessa1547
unafflicted1599
uninfected1625
diseaseless1653
hale1684
undiseased1745
unaffected1793
undisordereda1807
afflictionless1874
symptom-free1962
1837 J. Chapman tr. Æschylus Eumenides in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 401 Chor. What seat shall ours be? Ath. One afflictionless [Gk. πάσης ἀπήμον᾽ οίζύος], Accept it.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. ix. 125 He always had a loosened tooth or a cut finger..being thereby elevated above the common herd of afflictionless humanity.
2000 H. Ramamoorthy tr. Song of Ribhu xvii. 265 One's own Self, indeed, is of the nature of the afflictionless Brahman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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