OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8440

affectation

/ˌæf.ɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
afectación
An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
This poem is strongly tinctured with those pedantic affectations concerning the passion of love ...
[T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural g…
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