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Definition
a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
- Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.Chapter 8 (91% in)
- But when this subject was succeeded by his account of Mr. Wickham—when she read with somewhat clearer attention a relation of events which, if true, must overthrow every cherished opinion of his worth, and which bore so alarming an affinity to his own history of himself—her feelings were yet more acutely painful and more difficult of definition.Chapter 36 (12% in)
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