Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of affection.
- adj. feeling a certain affection for; so disposed
- adj. affected, pompous
- adj. obstinate, willful
- adj. zealous, earnest
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Disposed.
- adj. Affected; conceited.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a certain disposition of feeling; disposed.
- Affected; conceited.
Etymologies
Examples
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In fact, Irish people are very nice, friendly and special people, affectioned towards their traditions and culture, and eager for conveying all this to the students in visit to their country.
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Romans 12: 10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
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And I (continued Ischomachus) was struck with admiration at her answer, and replied: “Think you, my wife, it is through some such traits of forethought seen in their mistress-leader that the hearts of bees are won, and they are so loyally affectioned towards her that, if ever she abandon her hive, not one of them will dream of being left behind; 149 but one and all must follow her.”
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Rom 12: 10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
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He advanced towards me, correct, supple, hollow-eyed, and smiling; and as to his costume ready to go out except for the old shooting jacket which he must have affectioned particularly, for he never lost any time in getting into it at every opportunity.
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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
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Forsooth, these Darlings are nothing more, to their contemptuous certainty, than the offset of some court favorite, too low to have won nobility, in the reign of some light-affectioned king.
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The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing constantly, but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass, that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths: the best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work.
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I understand you very well, quoth Pantagruel, and take you to be very good at topics, and thoroughly affectioned to your own cause.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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When challenged for her reasons in saying 'puritan', Maria backs off and settles for declaring that Malvolio is a 'time-pleaser' and 'affectioned ass' who is far too well 'persuaded of himself.
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