Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who affects, pretends, or assumes.
- noun One who affects or loves.
- noun Also spelled
affector .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
affects to know something or to be something.
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Examples
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Badenoch's penetrating eye saw that it was indeed the patriotic guardian of his country to whom he bowed, and not the vain affecter of regal power.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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Related Terms & Expressions: le ouïe-dire = hearsay, rumor avoir l'ouïe fine = to have sharp hearing avoir l'ouïe un peu dure = to be hard of hearing être tout ouïe = to be all ears affecter l'ouïe = to affect hearing
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Related Terms & Expressions: le ouïe-dire = hearsay, rumor avoir l'ouïe fine = to have sharp hearing avoir l'ouïe un peu dure = to be hard of hearing être tout ouïe = to be all ears affecter l'ouïe = to affect hearing
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Related Terms & Expressions: le ouïe-dire = hearsay, rumor avoir l'ouïe fine = to have sharp hearing avoir l'ouïe un peu dure = to be hard of hearing être tout ouïe = to be all ears affecter l'ouïe = to affect hearing
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Kane utilise la corporalité de la parole pour affecter physiquement le public.
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City, a Friar Minor, an Inquisitor after matters of Faith; who, although he laboured greatly to seeme a sanctified man, and an earnest affecter of Christian Religion, (as all of them appeare to be in outward shew;) yet he was a much better Inquisitor after them that had their purses plenteously stored with money, then of such as were slenderly grounded in Faith.
The Decameron 2004
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It was indeed the opinion of all the others, when they consulted about the execution of their design, that it was necessary to cut off Antony with Caesar, looking upon him as an insolent man, an affecter of monarchy, and one that, by his familiar intercourse, had gained a powerful interest with the soldiers.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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He was a boaster of his Vices -- a [illegible] great affecter of licentiousness-and at last got in Love, like a fool, with a Girl, much too good for him.
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FLATTER, affecter agréablement; louer à l'excès pour séduire.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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A great affecter of wits and such prettinesses; and his company is costly to him, for he seldom has it but invited.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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