Both Uses of
affinity
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.†
p. 40.3 *
- 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.†
p. 198.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(affinity) a natural attraction, sympathy, or important similarity
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Affinity is also used technically to describe physical attractions such as between atoms or antigens and antibodies.