Synonym: admiration. Similar words: affectionate, affectation, infection, affect, effectively, effectiveness, affliction, section. Meaning: [-kʃn] n. a positive feeling of liking.
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181, What made it difficult and then intolerable was a growing competition, a struggle for her affection between her parents.
182, Vidor was always to have a special affection for this film but later film historians have had many reservations.
183, As husband and father, Stewart provided the family little in the way of affection.
184, The world of affection, approval, and love is replaced by the world of order, work, and entrance exams.
185, Another three years later the passion had cooled somewhat but genuine affection remained.
186, Children need to be given affection and to experience safety.
187, You may be currently living with a consenting adult you have real affection for.
188, She attracted real affection, while the Shah himself aroused fear or, at best, respect.
189, Somehow Mr Mallory couldn't honestly say he felt any affection for Damien.
190, Yet with me, and only me, he showed other qualities, like tenderness, true brotherly love, genuine affection.
191, Tamar's eyes met George's and they smiled in mutual affection.
192, I couldn't remember the last time he'd shown me so much affection.
193, He flared his nostrils at her, a sign of affection.
194, This strategy will not only secure the affection of my president and my client but will also advance my career.
195, Young Katharine began to care about the newspaper, and the deep affection and trust between father and daughter grew.
196, Army regulations prohibit public displays of affection by soldiers, and private hideaways are hard to come by.
197, Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. Joseph Addison
198, Clare began to feel a foolish kind of affection for the umbrella that was doing them both such sterling service.
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199, In any case it didn't preclude, on Pound's part, genuine affection.
200, It is that tender, chiding, mutual affection which makes these beautifully translated letters between them so agreeable to read.
201, Eventually, most youngsters outgrow the jealousy and bickering, and begin to feel affection and care for each other.
202, She was called Hodierna and Richard seems to have remembered her with affection.
203, Finally, a lie is wrong because it is in conflict with mutual trust and affection.
204, She was sharp-eyed and even sharper of tongue, but the bond of affection between them was unbreakable.
205, Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods. Christopher Hitchens
206, It's seems that their marriage is a lost cause in which possess the husband and wife not real affection for one another.
207, This letter is significative of her affection.
208, "Hickox commanded absolute respect and affection, which was very special in the hurly-burly of British musical life, " he said.
209, Another strategy is forcing employees to sign "love contracts, " the office version of a prenup, stating their mutual affection will not interfere with the workplace.
210, Poems from Yutai Xinyong focus on the affection and the fair sex, namely, " collection of boudoir "
More similar words: affectionate, affectation, infection, affect, effectively, effectiveness, affliction, section, election, direction, selection, objection, projection, collection, connection, reflection, protection, inspection, introspection, effect, in all directions, in effect, take effect, environmental protection, the greenhouse effect, action, fiction, auction, function, reaction.