Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a certain disposition of feeling; disposed.
- Affected; conceited.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Archaic Disposed.
- adjective obsolete Affected; conceited.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
affection . - adjective archaic feeling a certain
affection for; sodisposed - adjective archaic
affected ,pompous - adjective archaic
obstinate ,willful - adjective archaic
zealous ,earnest
Etymologies
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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.
Study English in Ireland « Esl Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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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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Romans 12: 10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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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.”
Oeconomicus 2007
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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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Rom 12: 10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
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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.
The Arrow of Gold 2006
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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.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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