affection Betydning & definition

Eksempler på affection

• Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth.

• The natural tendency of man to attach upwards through local affections was turned on its head.

• To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections.

• They are part of the rhetoric of the affections, of persuasio; the feelings involved are those of the listeners and do not necessarily always coincide with those in the song.

• Significantly, when he describes the "social passions" (listed as "generosity, humanity, kindness, compassion, mutual friendship and esteem, all the social and benevolent affections"), his principal examples are of the family.

• Industry, in a great measure, depends on property; and a much greater blessing depends on it, which is the gratification of the most dignified natural affections.

• Without law and order we should all be savages, undiscriminating in our casual affections, violent in our revenges, and philistine in our attitude to art and science alike.

• Here, supernatural agents, through their surrogates and instruments, manifest themselves in people's affections.