All 3 Uses
affectation
in
Middlemarch
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- Considered as a demise, old Featherstone's death assumed a merely legal aspect, so that Mr. Vincy could tap his snuff-box over it and be jovial, without even an intermittent affectation of solemnity; and Mr. Vincy hated both solemnity and affectation.†
Chpt 3affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- Considered as a demise, old Featherstone's death assumed a merely legal aspect, so that Mr. Vincy could tap his snuff-box over it and be jovial, without even an intermittent affectation of solemnity; and Mr. Vincy hated both solemnity and affectation.†
Chpt 3
- He would be a piece of professional affectation.†
Chpt 5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(affectation) behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)