afflation (plural afflations)

1. A blowing#Noun|blowing or breathing#Noun|breathing on; inspiration.
   • 1922, Thomas Hardy, “An Experience”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], OCLC 475135 ↗, stanza 2, page 111 ↗:

     But there was a new afflation— / An aura zephyring round, / That care infected not: [...]