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affectation
in
Pride and Prejudice
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- Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.†
p. 16.9 *affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as to be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.†
p. 107.7
- She had even learnt to detect, in the very gentleness which had first delighted her, an affectation and a sameness to disgust and weary.†
p. 225.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(affectation) behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)