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Definition of Affections
1. affection [n] - See also: affection
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affections
Literary usage of Affections
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"UNIVERSITY, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA The material for this paper is taken from
the records of 109 cases of nervous affections seen within the last two ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1862)
"In this country, quite as much as in Great Britain, cutaneous affections are,
... A. Cutaneous affections due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"The duration of these affections. 4. The eventual result, whether cured, ...
What is the influence of sex and age in the causation of these affections ? 4. ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1868)
"A public man, a commercial man as we well know, yet his heart is in his home,
and his joy in his affections : the presence of this immense assembly here ..."
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