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Definitions
a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
Word origin
From Middle French affectation and its etymon Latin affectātiōnem, from affectō (“to feign”). By surface analysis, affect + -ation.
Used in a sentence
“This poem is strongly tinctured with those pedantic affectations concerning the passion of love ...”
“Her upper part of decent diſcipline / Shew’d affecation of an ancient line: / And fathers, councils, church and churches head, / Were on her reverend Phylacteries read.”
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