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"The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception."
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"ref": "1756, Robert Simson, Euclid's Elements",
"text": "A Porism is a proposition in which it is proposed to demonstrate that some one thing, or more things than one, are given, to which, as also to each of innumerable other things, not given indeed, but which have the same relation to those which are given, it is to be shewn that there belongs some common affection described in the proposition.",
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"ref": "2013 August 23, Mark Cocker, “Wings of Desire”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, page 26",
"text": "Our affections for wild animals are distributed very unevenly. Take insects.",
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"ref": "1905, Emanuel Swedenborg, chapter 27, in John C. Ager, transl., Heaven and Hell",
"text": "It is known that each individual has a variety of affections, one affection when in joy, another when in grief, another when in sympathy and compassion, another when in sincerity and truth, another when in love and charity, another when in zeal or in anger, another when in simulation and deceit, another when in quest of honor and glory, and so on.",
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"sense": "kind feeling",
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{
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{
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"sense": "any emotion",
"word": "慈愛"
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"code": "hi",
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"text": "I have a lot of affection for my little sister.",
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"text": "The marriage therapist suggested they show each other more affection.",
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"ref": "1908, George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married: Spurious \"Natural\" Affection",
"text": "What is more, they are protected from even such discomfort as the dislike of his prisoners may cause to a gaoler by the hypnotism of the convention that the natural relation between husband and wife and parent and child is one of intense affection, and that to feel any other sentiment towards a member of one's family is to be a monster.",
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"ref": "2016 March 8, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 806 - Terrible Excuse",
"text": "\"Did you ever like me back, Ryan? All those years, I didn't know how to show my affection for you, so I wasn't sure if you weren't getting it or you just didn't care. But I need to know which it was.\"",
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"ref": "2021 August 13, Gayle, Sara Davis, David Pittenger, “abcdefu”, in A Study of the Human Experience Volume One, performed by Gayle",
"text": "Dated a girl that I hate, for the attention / She only made it two days, what a connection / It's like you'd do anything, for my affection / You're going all about it in the worst ways",
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"roman": "pjaščótnascʹ",
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"code": "fi",
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"2": "la",
"3": "affectiōnem"
},
"expansion": "Latin affectiōnem",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "affectiō"
},
"expansion": "affectiō",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "affect",
"3": "ion"
},
"expansion": "affect + -ion",
"name": "suffix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*dʰeh₁-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English affection, affeccion, affeccioun, from Old French affection, from Latin affectiōnem, from affectiō; equivalent to affect + -ion.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "affections",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "affectioning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "affectioned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "affectioned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "affection (third-person singular simple present affections, present participle affectioning, simple past and past participle affectioned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"af‧fec‧tion"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section V",
"text": "Why, truth is truth, I do not think my lady Isabella ever much affectioned my young lord, your son: yet he was a sweet youth as one should see.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To feel affection for."
],
"links": [
[
"feel",
"feel"
],
[
"affection",
"#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(now rare) To feel affection for."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈfɛk.ʃən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈfɛk.t͡ʃən/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛkʃən"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-affection.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/66/En-us-affection.ogg/En-us-affection.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/En-us-affection.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"affection"
],
"word": "affection"
}
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