"afflation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1922, Thomas Hardy, “An Experience”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 111:",
          "text": "But there was a new afflation— / An aura zephyring round, / That care infected not: [...]",
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        "A blowing or breathing on; inspiration."
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