Helen Fenton

Affection: Definition and part of speech

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Affection

  1. n. Passion; violent emotion.
  2. n. The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
  3. n. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies.
  4. n. Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.
  5. n. A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; — often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children.
  6. n. Prejudice; bias.
  7. n. Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection.
  8. n. The lively representation of any emotion.
  9. n. Affectation.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Affectedly: Definition and part of speech

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Affectedly

  1. adv. Lovingly; with tender care.
  2. adv. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Affectation: Definition and part of speech

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Affectation

  1. n. Fondness; affection.
  2. n. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
  3. n. A striving after.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Affect: Definition and part of speech

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Affect

  1. n. Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
  2. v. t. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
  3. v. t. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
  4. v. t. To love; to regard with affection.
  5. v. t. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
  6. v. t. To dispose or incline.
  7. v. t. To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
  8. v. t. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
  9. v. t. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
  10. v. t. To assign; to appoint.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.