Affectioned

/əˈfɛkʃn̩d/ · adjective

Meaning

(archaic) Feeling a certain affection (for); disposed..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) Feeling a certain affection (for); disposed.
2. (archaic) Affected, pompous.
3. (archaic) Obstinate, willful.
4. (archaic) Zealous, earnest.
5. simple past and past participle of affection

Example Sentences

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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• more affectioned
• most affectioned

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