Chapter Adumbration to Affirmative of A by Soule's Synonymes

2. Concern, interest, regard, relate to, bear upon.

3. Touch, move, impress, melt, subdue, overcome, pierce.

4. Crave, yearn for, aspire to, aim at, desire, like, be drawn toward, be attracted by, take pleasure in.

5. Assume, adopt, take on, feign, arrogate, put on, make a show of, pretend to.

Affectation, n. Pretension, airs, affectedness, mannerism, assumed manners, affected manner, pretence, false pretence, artificiality, unnaturalness, stiffness, finical air, mincingness, foppery.

Affected, a.

1. Assumed, feigned, unnatural, artificial, insincere, canting.

2. Assuming, pretending, pretentious, conceited, vain, coxcomical, foppish.

Affectedness, n. See affectation.

Affecting, a. Moving, touching, pathetic, piteous, impressive.

Affection, n.

1. Feeling, passion, inclination, propensity, proclivity, disposition, predisposition, bent, bias, turn of mind, cast or frame of mind.

2. Attribute, quality, property, character, characteristic, mark, note, accident, modification, mode.

3. Love, heart, attachment, kindness, partiality, fondness, liking, tenderness, endearment, regard, good- will, devotion, tender passion.

4. (Med.) Disorder, malady, disease.

Affectionate, a. Loving, fond, attached, devoted, warm, tender, kind, sympathetic, tender-hearted, warm- hearted.

Affiance, v. a. Betroth, engage, plight.

Affidavit, n. Testimony (in writing, signed and sworn to before a magistrate, but given without cross- examination), evidence. See deposition.

Affiliate, v. a.

1. Adopt, take or treat as one’s own child.