All 3 Uses of
affinity
in
David Copperfield
- The young man still replied: 'Come to the pollis!' and was dragging me against the donkey in a violent manner, as if there were any affinity between that animal and a magistrate, when he changed his mind, jumped into the cart, sat upon my box, and, exclaiming that he would drive to the pollis straight, rattled away harder than ever.†
Chpt 10-12
- 'You don't mean to say that there is any affinity between nautical matters and ecclesiastical matters?'†
Chpt 22-24 *
- Poetical affinity.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(affinity) a natural attraction, sympathy, or important similarity