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affectedly

adv

Etymology

From affected + -ly.

Definitions

  1. In an affected manner

    In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.

    • I was resolved to decline all imitations for the future, and stick to the original, uncouth as it might be. Better, thought I, to be naturally clownish, than affectedly ridiculous […]
    • Her manners shewed good sense and good breeding; they were neither shy, nor affectedly open […]

  2. Lovingly

    Lovingly; with tender care.

    • […] letters sadly penn’d in blood, With sleided silk feat and affectedly Enswathed, and seal'd to curious secrecy.
    • 1628, John Earle, Micro-cosmographie, or, A Peece of the World Discovered; in Essayes and Characters, London: Edward Blount, 55. “A stayed Man,” One not hasty to pursue the new Fashion, nor yet affectedly true to his old round Breeches.

  3. With intention, intentionally, deliberately.

    • […] the Excelsi or high places mentioned in the sacred Story, wherein the Heathen performed idolatrous rites unto their Idols, were commonly groves, affectedly sited upon some mountainous place, without any House or Temple.
    • I have affectedly made use of this measure here […] because, I think, it would be of general convenience, that this should be the common measure in the Commonwealth of Letters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at affectedly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01affectedly02deliberately03accidentally04accidental05adjusted06bias07diminish08unimportant09important10pompous

A definitional loop anchored at affectedly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at affectedly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA