Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by affinity; closely related.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Closely connected, as by affinity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Closely
connected , as byaffinity .
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Examples
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As a female germ can not produce a child without the addition of a male germ, so there latent impure particles in the blood can not generate disease without meeting their affinitive poison.
Victorian Medical Science gailcarriger 2009
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As a female germ can not produce a child without the addition of a male germ, so there latent impure particles in the blood can not generate disease without meeting their affinitive poison.
Victorian Medical Science gailcarriger 2009
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“The reason tickling and laughter are so important,” Roger Fouts says, “is because they play a role in maintaining the affinitive bonds of friendship within the family and community.”
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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“The reason tickling and laughter are so important,” Roger Fouts says, “is because they play a role in maintaining the affinitive bonds of friendship within the family and community.”
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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“The reason tickling and laughter are so important,” Roger Fouts says, “is because they play a role in maintaining the affinitive bonds of friendship within the family and community.”
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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“The reason tickling and laughter are so important,” Roger Fouts says, “is because they play a role in maintaining the affinitive bonds of friendship within the family and community.”
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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The lesson taught him is, that while inequalities occur in every variety of life, like and unlike seek affinitive groups; that nature remorselessly assorts and classifies mankind into
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Having established the color of the first man by a draft on Scripture narrative, etymology and mental philosophy, I shall, in another chapter, establish the color of the first woman by the same means, perhaps using the argument of two or three affinitive sciences in addition thereto.
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Sense, in which these Gentlemen are pleased to understand and expound many Texts of the _Bible_, relating to this and other affinitive Points.
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From the mock black and white flashback in which the U. S military discovers the subversive effects of heavy pot use, to an engaging montage that introduces Dale Denton and his liberal opinion but non-liberal use of marijuana, while going about his work as a despised Process Server, Pineapple Express makes an excellent first impression and feels like a rather affinitive take on today's slackers who partake in casual drug use.
DVD Times 2009
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