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Definition of Affection |
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Affection
The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. Prejudice; bias. Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. The lively representation of any emotion. Affectation. Passion; violent emotion. Related Definitions: Act, Acting, Affectation, Affected, Affecting, Affection, An, And, Any, Are, As, Attachment, Attribute, Being, Benevolent, Bent, Bias, Bodies, Bodily, But, By, Children, Condition, Conjugal, Disease, Disposition, Emotion, Envy, Esteem, Feeling, Figure, Filial, Followed, For, Formerly, Generally, Good, Gratitude, Hatred, Have, Impulse, In, Kind, Lively, Love, Zealous, Malady, Malevolent, Mind, Morbid, More, Natural, Now, Of, Often, Or, Passion, Prejudice, Propensity, Property, Pulmonary, Quality, Representation, Settled, Social, State, Swaying, Symptom, Tendency, Tender, The, To, Towards, Upon, Violent, Weight, Will |
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Affection Quotations
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude. Francois de La Rochefoucauld The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. Nan Fairbrother The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. George Bernard Shaw If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection. Francois de La Rochefoucauld All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. George Bernard Shaw |
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Affection Translations
affection in Afrikaans is aandoening, emosie affection in Dutch is affect, emotie, aandoening affection in French is affection affection in German is Zuneigung affection in Italian is affetto, affezione affection in Latin is amor affection in Norwegian is hengivenhet |
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