"dilection" meaning in English

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          "text": "1554, Dr. Martin [ Stephen Gardiner? ], Treatise on the Marriage of Priestes\nThese words mine, and thine, proceeded first of iniquitie, because men did not observe mutual and natural dilection."
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          "ref": "1586, John Harmar, transl., Master Bezaes sermons:",
          "text": "And this was the first testimony of the infinite dilection of God towards man.",
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          "ref": "1614, John King, Vitis Palatina:",
          "text": "A bone not far from his heart, to put him in mind of dilection and love to the woman.",
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          "ref": "1648, Robert Boyle, Discourse on Seraphick Love, published 1660",
          "text": "So free is Christ's dilection, that the grand condition of our felicity is our belief."
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          "text": "1554, Dr. Martin [ Stephen Gardiner? ], Treatise on the Marriage of Priestes\nThese words mine, and thine, proceeded first of iniquitie, because men did not observe mutual and natural dilection."
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