affectioned

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Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
22
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/əˈfɛkʃn̩d/

Definition of affectioned

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic)Feeling a certain affection (for); disposed.
    “But some man wil saye againe, that is more affectioned to Philosophie, than eyther to the lawe of Moses eyther to Christian fayth:[…].”
    “I am, your affectioned freind and servant, Subscribitur, Pet. Wedderburn.”
    “Besides the gratitude which every American owes [France], as our sole ally during the war of independence, I am additionally affectioned by the friendships I contracted there by the good dispositions I witnessed, and by the courtesies I received.”
    “Kindly affectioned and unselfish to the bitter end, did the dying saurian once again lift up his crocodilly voice, now faint and tinny with the hollowness of dissolution, and cry, “Avaunt, good Saracen, avaunt! Bide further afield, lest peradventure, in the tantrums of death, I cleave thy skull with my scaly tail. But, oh! for the love of Him that made us both, speak no more so despitefully of crocodile tears”—and he wept aloud.”
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adj

  1. (archaic)Feeling a certain affection (for); disposed.
    “But some man wil saye againe, that is more affectioned to Philosophie, than eyther to the lawe of Moses eyther to Christian fayth:[…].”
    “I am, your affectioned freind and servant, Subscribitur, Pet. Wedderburn.”
    “Besides the gratitude which every American owes [France], as our sole ally during the war of independence, I am additionally affectioned by the friendships I contracted there by the good dispositions I witnessed, and by the courtesies I received.”
    “Kindly affectioned and unselfish to the bitter end, did the dying saurian once again lift up his crocodilly voice, now faint and tinny with the hollowness of dissolution, and cry, “Avaunt, good Saracen, avaunt! Bide further afield, lest peradventure, in the tantrums of death, I cleave thy skull with my scaly tail. But, oh! for the love of Him that made us both, speak no more so despitefully of crocodile tears”—and he wept aloud.”
  2. (archaic)Affected, pompous.
  3. (archaic)Obstinate, willful.
  4. (archaic)Zealous, earnest.

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of affection

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Etymology

From affection + -ed.

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