All 3 Uses
affectation
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- They came up to us at once merrily and without the least affectation of shyness, and all three shook hands with me as if I were a friend newly come back from a long journey: though I could not help noticing that they looked askance at my garments; for I had on my clothes of last night, and at the best was never a dressy person.†
affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- He came and sat down at our table with a smiling face, stretching out his long legs and hanging his arm over the chair in the slowly graceful way which tall and well-built people may use without affectation.†
- "O, you are so very welcome," said the little lass, with an affectation of grown-up manners at their best which was very quaint.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(affectation) behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)