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<p><b>3.</b> <def>Fondness; affection.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hooker.</i>

<h1>Affectationist</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af`fec*ta"tion*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who exhibits affectation.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Fitzed. Hall.</i>

<h1>Affected</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fect"ed</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>p. p. & a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Regarded with affection; beloved.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>His <b>affected</b> Hercules. <i>Chapman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Inclined; disposed; attached.</def>

<blockquote>How stand you <b>affected</b> his wish? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real.</def>

<blockquote>He is . . . too spruce, too <b>affected</b>, too odd. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Assumed artificially; not natural.</def>

<blockquote><b>Affected</b> coldness and indifference. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Alg.)</fld> <def>Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; <as>as, an <ex>affected</ex> equation</as>.</def>

<h1>Affectedly</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fect"ed*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Lovingly; with tender care.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Affectedness</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fect"ed*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Affectation.</def>

<h1>Affecter</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fect"er</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after.</def> "<i>Affecters</i> of wit."

<i>Abp. Secker.</i>

<h1>Affectibility</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fect`i*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being affectible.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Affectibl</</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fect"i*bl<?/</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That may be affected.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

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