"affect" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈæ.fɛkt/ Forms: affects [plural]
enPR: ă'fĕkt Etymology: From Middle English affect, from Latin affectus, adfectus (“a state of mind or body produced by some (external) influence, especially sympathy or love”), from afficere (“to act upon, influence”). Etymology templates: {{etymid|en|mood-emotion-feeling}}, {{inh|en|enm|affect}} Middle English affect, {{der|en|la|affectus}} Latin affectus Head templates: {{en-noun}} affect (plural affects)
  1. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs. Categories (topical): Psychology Translations (psychology: feeling in response to a stimulus): афе́кт (afékt) [masculine] (Bulgarian), afecte [masculine] (Catalan), affect [neuter] (Dutch), afekcio (Esperanto), affekti (Finnish), Affekt [masculine] (German), αίσθηση (aísthisi) [feminine] (Greek), affektus (Hungarian), érzelmi változás/jelenség (Hungarian), felindultság (Hungarian), afek (Indonesian), emosi (Indonesian), perasaan (Indonesian), affekt [masculine] (Norwegian), afekt [masculine] (Polish), afeto (Portuguese), аффе́кт (affékt) [masculine] (Russian), aфект [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), afekt [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), afekt [masculine] (Slovene)
    Sense id: en-affect-en-noun-en:mood__emotion__or_feeling Categories (other): Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 10 8 4 9 4 6 4 8 13 16 6 4 5 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 13 9 6 10 4 6 2 6 12 15 6 4 5 3 Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences Disambiguation of 'psychology: feeling in response to a stimulus': 85 8 7
  2. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-affect-en-noun-CamqBJU8
  3. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-affect-en-noun-mmwg9THM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: affect display, affect perseverance, flat affect, labile affect, pseudobulbar affect Related terms: affection, affectionate, affective
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /əˈfɛkt/ Audio: en-uk-affect.ogg , en-au-affect.ogg Forms: affects [present, singular, third-person], affecting [participle, present], affected [participle, past], affected [past]
enPR: ə.fĕkt' Rhymes: -ɛkt Etymology: From Middle English affecten, from Latin affectāre, from Latin affectus, the participle stem of Latin afficere (“to act upon, influence, affect, attack with disease”), from ad- + facere (“to make, do”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-}}, {{inh|en|enm|affecten}} Middle English affecten, {{der|en|la|affectāre}} Latin affectāre, {{der|en|la|affectus}} Latin affectus, {{der|en|la|afficere|t=to act upon, influence, affect, attack with disease}} Latin afficere (“to act upon, influence, affect, attack with disease”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} affect (third-person singular simple present affects, present participle affecting, simple past and past participle affected)
  1. (transitive) To influence or alter. Tags: transitive Synonyms: alter, change, have an effect on, influence Translations (to influence or alter): أَثَّرَ (ʔaṯṯara) (Arabic), afeutar (Asturian), уплываць (uplyvacʹ) (Belarusian), действам (dejstvam) (Bulgarian), въздействам (vǎzdejstvam) (Bulgarian), afectar (Catalan), 影響 (Chinese Cantonese), 影响 (jing² hoeng²) (Chinese Cantonese), 影響 (Chinese Mandarin), 影响 (yǐngxiǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), nasya (Cornish), utjecati (Croatian), ovlivnit (Czech), påvirke (Danish), beïnvloeden (Dutch), ávirka (Faroese), vaikuttaa (Finnish), affecter (French), toucher (French), afectar (Galician), beeinflussen (German), επηρεάζω (epireázo) (Greek), επιδρώ (epidró) (Greek), hat (Hungarian), kihat (Hungarian), érint (Hungarian), befolyásol (Hungarian), hatással van (Hungarian), téigh i bhfeidhm ar (Irish), influenzare (Italian), condizionare (Italian), alterare (Italian), ബാധിക്കുക (bādhikkuka) (Malayalam), kawekawe (Maori), influere (Norwegian), gå utover (Norwegian), påvirke (Norwegian Bokmål), afetar (Portuguese), влия́ть (vlijátʹ) (english: influence) (Russian), возде́йствовать (vozdéjstvovatʹ) (english: influence) (Russian), меня́ть (menjátʹ) (english: alter) (Russian), affek (Scots), afectar (Spanish), påverka (Swedish), influera (Swedish), yām- (Tocharian B), впливати (vplyvaty) (Ukrainian), вплинути (vplynuty) (Ukrainian), effeithio ar (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-affect-en-verb-CcGa4RH4 Disambiguation of 'to influence or alter': 91 1 2 1 2 2 2
  2. (transitive) To move to emotion. Tags: transitive Synonyms: move, touch Translations (to move to emotion): засягам (zasjagam) (Bulgarian), вълнувам (vǎlnuvam) (Bulgarian), berøre (Danish), røre (Danish), ontroeren (Dutch), emotioneren (Dutch), kortuŝi (Esperanto), liikuttaa (Finnish), affecter (French), émouvoir (French), rühren (German), bewegen (German), συγκινώ (sygkinó) (Greek), megindít (Hungarian), megérint (Hungarian), elszomorít (Hungarian), hatással van (Hungarian), commuovere (Italian), 感動させる (kandō saseru) (Japanese), affektere (Norwegian), afektować [imperfective] (Polish), comover (Portuguese), волнова́ть (volnovátʹ) (Russian), тро́гать (trógatʹ) (Russian), affek (Scots), afectar (Spanish), conmover (Spanish), beröra (Swedish), röra (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-affect-en-verb-en:move_to_emotion Disambiguation of 'to move to emotion': 1 97 0 0 1 0 1
  3. (transitive, pathology) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body). Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Pathology Synonyms: attack, harm, infect Translations (to infect or harm): поразявам (porazjavam) (Bulgarian), postihnout (Czech), påvirke (Danish), skade (Danish), aantasten (Dutch), vahingoittaa (Finnish), affecter (French), προσβάλλω (prosvállo) (Greek), βλάπτω (vlápto) (Greek), károsít (Hungarian), árt (Hungarian), colpire (Italian), ബാധിക്കുക (bādhikkuka) (Malayalam), affektere (Norwegian), zaafektować [dated, perfective] (Polish), afetar (Portuguese), поража́ть (poražátʹ) (Russian), afectar (Spanish), påverka (Swedish), skada (Swedish), drabba (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-affect-en-verb-BvSp2mFp Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences Disambiguation of 'to infect or harm': 2 1 89 2 2 3 2
  4. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline. Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-affect-en-verb-XNeCz~UT
  5. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition. Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-affect-en-verb-IRxmYsM~
  6. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint. Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-affect-en-verb-1PY64Lrw Categories (other): Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 10 8 4 9 4 6 4 8 13 16 6 4 5 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 13 9 6 10 4 6 2 6 12 15 6 4 5 3
  7. (transitive, Scots law) To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Scots law
    Sense id: en-affect-en-verb-FkPjQME8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English heteronyms, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Asturian translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Cornish translations, Terms with Cree translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Faroese translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Lithuanian translations, Terms with Malayalam translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Scots translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tocharian B translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 12 2 4 2 6 2 4 11 29 7 5 3 1 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 9 11 4 4 4 8 4 4 8 27 6 5 3 3 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 12 5 5 5 6 5 5 7 24 6 4 3 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 28 4 5 2 1 1 2 1 1 3 11 2 2 1 1 23 2 1 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 26 4 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 14 2 1 1 1 21 1 1 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 7 10 16 6 6 13 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Asturian translations: 9 12 10 7 7 15 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Belarusian translations: 9 12 10 7 7 15 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 11 11 8 4 6 6 3 4 8 20 7 5 5 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 7 7 14 7 7 14 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 11 12 8 4 6 7 4 3 7 21 5 5 5 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Cornish translations: 8 11 13 7 6 14 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Cree translations: 8 11 12 7 7 14 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 22 9 14 5 7 11 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 6 8 13 5 5 11 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 8 10 6 6 6 6 6 5 9 21 6 6 3 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 10 12 7 4 4 7 4 4 8 24 6 5 3 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Faroese translations: 15 10 12 6 7 12 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 11 12 8 4 6 7 4 3 7 21 5 5 5 3 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 6 6 7 6 7 12 24 10 8 7 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 8 11 13 7 6 14 40 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 9 10 5 5 5 6 5 4 9 24 6 6 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 10 8 4 9 4 6 4 8 13 16 6 4 5 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 13 9 6 10 4 6 2 6 12 15 6 4 5 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 7 7 9 7 7 15 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 12 11 8 8 5 6 3 4 7 20 5 5 4 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 8 11 16 7 6 13 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 6 6 7 6 5 12 33 7 9 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 8 8 9 8 7 16 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Lithuanian translations: 12 11 8 8 5 6 3 4 7 20 5 5 4 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Malayalam translations: 8 8 9 8 7 16 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 12 6 17 6 9 16 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 8 11 13 7 6 14 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 9 12 14 7 7 14 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 11 12 8 4 6 7 4 3 7 21 5 5 5 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 10 11 8 5 6 10 4 4 7 17 6 5 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 10 10 7 7 5 6 3 3 10 18 9 7 4 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 9 11 5 5 5 5 5 4 9 26 5 6 3 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Scots translations: 7 10 12 6 6 13 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 11 11 8 8 5 6 3 4 7 20 5 5 4 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 12 11 8 8 5 6 3 4 7 20 5 5 4 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 6 6 7 6 6 10 33 8 8 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 6 8 10 5 5 10 30 8 8 7 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Tocharian B translations: 7 3 6 2 3 7 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 8 11 13 7 6 14 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 9 9 11 9 9 15 37
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb

IPA: /əˈfɛkt/ Audio: en-uk-affect.ogg Forms: affects [present, singular, third-person], affecting [participle, present], affected [participle, past], affected [past]
enPR: əfĕkt' Rhymes: -ɛkt Etymology: From Middle English affecten, from Anglo-Norman affecter (“strive after”), Middle French affecter (“feign”), and their source, Latin affectāre (“to strive after, aim to do, pursue, imitate with dissimulation, feign”), frequentative of afficere (“to act upon, influence”) (see Etymology 1, above). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|affecten}} Middle English affecten, {{der|en|xno|affecter||strive after}} Anglo-Norman affecter (“strive after”), {{der|en|frm|affecter||feign}} Middle French affecter (“feign”), {{der|en|la|affectāre||to strive after, aim to do, pursue, imitate with dissimulation, feign}} Latin affectāre (“to strive after, aim to do, pursue, imitate with dissimulation, feign”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} affect (third-person singular simple present affects, present participle affecting, simple past and past participle affected)
  1. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Appearance Synonyms: fake, simulate, feign Translations (to make a false display of): преструвам се (prestruvam se) (Bulgarian), имитирам (imitiram) (Bulgarian), veinzen (Dutch), afekti (Esperanto), esittää (Finnish), teeskennellä (Finnish), feindre (French), vortäuschen (German), fingieren (German), vorgaukeln (German), προσποιούμαι (prospoioúmai) (Greek), κάνω (káno) (Greek), fingere (Italian), fingir (Portuguese), притворя́ться (pritvorjátʹsja) (Russian), де́лать вид (délatʹ vid) (Russian), прики́дываться (prikídyvatʹsja) [colloquial] (Russian), fingir (Spanish), åstadkomma (Swedish), fingera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-affect-en-verb-Jcvsab1Q Disambiguation of Appearance: 13 5 5 8 6 14 2 4 5 3 21 5 4 7 Categories (other): English terms with collocations Disambiguation of 'to make a false display of': 87 3 4 6
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-affect-en-verb-gQSXjF7L
  3. (transitive, rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of. Tags: rare, transitive Translations (to feel affection for; to like, be fond of): pitää (Finnish), mögen (German), leiden können (German), gernhaben (German), afektować [imperfective] (Polish), люби́ть (ljubítʹ) (Russian), предпочита́ть (predpočitátʹ) (Russian), нра́виться (nrávitʹsja) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-affect-en-verb-eWCr5z0J Disambiguation of 'to feel affection for; to like, be fond of': 3 1 94 2
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-affect-en-verb-NrkYRZmK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: affected, affectedly, affectedness, affectation, affecter
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 16, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The climate affected their health and spirits.",
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          "ref": "2012 January 5, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 74:",
          "text": "Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.",
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          "sense": "to influence or alter",
          "word": "utjecati"
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to influence or alter",
          "word": "ovlivnit"
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          "code": "da",
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          "sense": "to influence or alter",
          "word": "påvirke"
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          "sense": "to influence or alter",
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          "sense": "to influence or alter",
          "word": "ávirka"
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          "sense": "to influence or alter",
          "word": "vaikuttaa"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to influence or alter",
          "word": "affecter"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to influence or alter",
          "word": "toucher"
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        {
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to influence or alter",
          "word": "afectar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 2 1 2 2 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to influence or alter",
          "word": "beeinflussen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 2 1 2 2 2",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "epireázo",
          "sense": "to influence or alter",
          "word": "επηρεάζω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 1 2 1 2 2 2",
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      "word": "affected"
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        "4": "",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affecting",
      "tags": [
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        "present"
      ]
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "English terms with collocations",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
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          "orig": "en:Appearance",
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            "Body",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "text": "to affect ignorance",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "to affect a British accent",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:",
          "text": "Thou dost affect my manners.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1729, William Congreve, A Hue and Cry After Fair Amoret:",
          "text": "Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 12:",
          "text": "He affected prescription lenses, framed in spidery gold, ground from thin slabs of pink synthetic quartz and beveled like the mirrors in a Victorian dollhouse.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "(transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of."
      ],
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          "word": "fake"
        },
        {
          "word": "simulate"
        },
        {
          "word": "feign"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "prestruvam se",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "преструвам се"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "imitiram",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "имитирам"
        },
        {
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "veinzen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
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          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "afekti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "esittää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "teeskennellä"
        },
        {
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "feindre"
        },
        {
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "vortäuschen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "fingieren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "vorgaukeln"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "prospoioúmai",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "προσποιούμαι"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "káno",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "κάνω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "fingere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "fingir"
        },
        {
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pritvorjátʹsja",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "притворя́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "délatʹ vid",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "де́лать вид"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prikídyvatʹsja",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial"
          ],
          "word": "прики́дываться"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "fingir"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "åstadkomma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 3 4 6",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to make a false display of",
          "word": "fingera"
        }
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
          "text": "Duke.[...] I loue the people,\nBut doe not like to stage me to their eyes:\nThough it doe well, I doe not rellish well\nTheir lowd applause, and Aues vehement:\nNor doe I thinke the man of safe discretion\nThat do's affect it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1662, Jacques Olivier, translated by Richard Banke, A Discourse of Women, Shewing Their Imperfections Alphabetically, →OCLC, page 15:",
          "text": "For it is believed, that he never was married, affecting and embracing Chastity through the whole course of his Life.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 430:",
          "text": "Wiſe are thy words, and glad I would obey, / But this proud man affects imperial ſway.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:",
          "text": "I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To aim for, to try to obtain."
      ],
      "id": "en-affect-en-verb-gQSXjF7L",
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        "(obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "ref": "c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
          "text": "There is a Lady in Verona heere\nWhom I affect: but she is nice, and coy,\nAnd naught esteemes my aged eloquence.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "From that day forth she gan to him affect, / And daily more her favour to augment […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vii:",
          "text": "A young gentlewoman in Basil was married[…]to an ancient man against her will, whom she could not affect; she was continually melancholy, and pined away for grief […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), page 173:",
          "text": "As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected, then affected; rather honoured, then loved her.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:",
          "text": "But when he pleased to show 't, his speech / In loftiness of sound was rich; / A Babylonish dialect, / Which learned pedants much affect.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of."
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        "(transitive, rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ],
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to feel affection for; to like, be fond of",
          "word": "pitää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 1 94 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to feel affection for; to like, be fond of",
          "word": "mögen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 1 94 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to feel affection for; to like, be fond of",
          "word": "leiden können"
        },
        {
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to feel affection for; to like, be fond of",
          "word": "gernhaben"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "3 1 94 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to feel affection for; to like, be fond of",
          "tags": [
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        "(transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint."
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔaṯṯara",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "أَثَّرَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "afeutar"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "uplyvacʹ",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "уплываць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dejstvam",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "действам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vǎzdejstvam",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "въздействам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "afectar"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "影響"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "jing² hoeng²",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "影响"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "影響"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǐngxiǎng",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "影响"
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      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "nasya"
    },
    {
      "code": "cr",
      "lang": "Croatian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "utjecati"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "ovlivnit"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "påvirke"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "beïnvloeden"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "ávirka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "vaikuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "affecter"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "toucher"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "afectar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "beeinflussen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "epireázo",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "επηρεάζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "epidró",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "επιδρώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "hat"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "kihat"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "érint"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "befolyásol"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "hatással van"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "téigh i bhfeidhm ar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "influenzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "condizionare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "alterare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "bādhikkuka",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "ബാധിക്കുക"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "kawekawe"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "influere"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "gå utover"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "påvirke"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "afetar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "influence",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vlijátʹ",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "влия́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "influence",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vozdéjstvovatʹ",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "возде́йствовать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "alter",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "menjátʹ",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "меня́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "affek"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "afectar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "påverka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "influera"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "yām-"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vplyvaty",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "впливати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vplynuty",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "вплинути"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to influence or alter",
      "word": "effeithio ar"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zasjagam",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "засягам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vǎlnuvam",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "вълнувам"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "berøre"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "røre"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "ontroeren"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "emotioneren"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "emotioneren"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "kortuŝi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "liikuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "affecter"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "émouvoir"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "rühren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "bewegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "sygkinó",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "συγκινώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "megindít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "megérint"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "elszomorít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "hatással van"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "commuovere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kandō saseru",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "感動させる"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "affektere"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "afektować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "comover"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "volnovátʹ",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "волнова́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "trógatʹ",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "тро́гать"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "affek"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "afectar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "conmover"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "beröra"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to move to emotion",
      "word": "röra"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "porazjavam",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "поразявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "postihnout"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "påvirke"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "skade"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "aantasten"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "vahingoittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "affecter"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "prosvállo",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "προσβάλλω"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "vlápto",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "βλάπτω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "károsít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "árt"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "colpire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "bādhikkuka",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "ബാധിക്കുക"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "affektere"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "tags": [
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        "perfective"
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      "word": "zaafektować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "afetar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "poražátʹ",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "поража́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "afectar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "påverka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "skada"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to infect or harm",
      "word": "drabba"
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          "text": "He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.",
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          "ref": "c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:",
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          "ref": "1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 12:",
          "text": "He affected prescription lenses, framed in spidery gold, ground from thin slabs of pink synthetic quartz and beveled like the mirrors in a Victorian dollhouse.",
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        "(transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of."
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          "ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
          "text": "Duke.[...] I loue the people,\nBut doe not like to stage me to their eyes:\nThough it doe well, I doe not rellish well\nTheir lowd applause, and Aues vehement:\nNor doe I thinke the man of safe discretion\nThat do's affect it.",
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        {
          "ref": "1662, Jacques Olivier, translated by Richard Banke, A Discourse of Women, Shewing Their Imperfections Alphabetically, →OCLC, page 15:",
          "text": "For it is believed, that he never was married, affecting and embracing Chastity through the whole course of his Life.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 430:",
          "text": "Wiſe are thy words, and glad I would obey, / But this proud man affects imperial ſway.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:",
          "text": "I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To aim for, to try to obtain."
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        "(obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain."
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          "ref": "c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
          "text": "There is a Lady in Verona heere\nWhom I affect: but she is nice, and coy,\nAnd naught esteemes my aged eloquence.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "From that day forth she gan to him affect, / And daily more her favour to augment […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection vii:",
          "text": "A young gentlewoman in Basil was married[…]to an ancient man against her will, whom she could not affect; she was continually melancholy, and pined away for grief […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), page 173:",
          "text": "As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected, then affected; rather honoured, then loved her.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:",
          "text": "But when he pleased to show 't, his speech / In loftiness of sound was rich; / A Babylonish dialect, / Which learned pedants much affect.",
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        "To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of."
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        "(transitive, rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of."
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          "ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Amongst humane conditions this one is very common, that we are rather pleased with strange things then with our owne; we love changes, affect alterations, and like innovations.",
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        },
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          "ref": "c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:",
          "text": "Go, let him have a table by himself, for he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for’t, indeed.",
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          "text": "1825, William Hazlitt, “On the Conduct of life: or Advice to a schoolboy” in Table-Talk Volume II, Paris: A. & W. Galignani, p. 284,\nDo not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great."
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        "To show a fondness for (something); to choose."
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        "(transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to feel affection for; to like, be fond of",
      "word": "pitää"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to feel affection for; to like, be fond of",
      "word": "mögen"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to feel affection for; to like, be fond of",
      "word": "leiden können"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to feel affection for; to like, be fond of",
      "word": "gernhaben"
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      "sense": "to feel affection for; to like, be fond of",
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      "word": "afektować"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ljubítʹ",
      "sense": "to feel affection for; to like, be fond of",
      "word": "люби́ть"
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      "roman": "predpočitátʹ",
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      "word": "предпочита́ть"
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      "word": "нра́виться"
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      "sense": "to make a false display of",
      "word": "преструвам се"
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      "roman": "imitiram",
      "sense": "to make a false display of",
      "word": "имитирам"
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      "word": "veinzen"
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      "sense": "to make a false display of",
      "word": "afekti"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make a false display of",
      "word": "esittää"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make a false display of",
      "word": "teeskennellä"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to make a false display of",
      "word": "feindre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make a false display of",
      "word": "vortäuschen"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make a false display of",
      "word": "fingieren"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "vorgaukeln"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "to make a false display of",
      "word": "προσποιούμαι"
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      "word": "κάνω"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
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      "word": "fingere"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to make a false display of",
      "word": "fingir"
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      "roman": "pritvorjátʹsja",
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      "word": "притворя́ться"
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      "sense": "to make a false display of",
      "word": "åstadkomma"
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      "sense": "to make a false display of",
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    }
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}

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      "word": "afecte"
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      "word": "affekti"
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      "word": "Affekt"
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      "sense": "psychology: feeling in response to a stimulus",
      "word": "affektus"
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      "sense": "psychology: feeling in response to a stimulus",
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      "sense": "psychology: feeling in response to a stimulus",
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