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well(-)aˈffected, ppl. a.
1. Favourably disposed, inclined to be favourable or friendly (to or towards a person or thing); spec., well-disposed towards existing authority, loyal.
1563–83Foxe A. & M. 150/2 If any good men were well affected or minded toward religion. 1609R. I. Nova Britannia title-p., Nova Britannia: Offering most Excellent fruites by Planting in Virginia. Exciting all such as be well affected to further the same. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. To Rdr., To the well-affected and favourable Reader. 1664D. Fleming in Extr. St. Papers Friends iii. (1912) 213 Hee Lives in a very well affected Towne, both to the church and State. 1671R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 502 The Presbyterian..party..never were well-affected to a French alliance. 1746Bp. Sherlock Let. 10 June in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 291 The well-affected Clans. 1832Lytton Eug. Aram i. ix, I know you are an honest man, Bunting, and well affected to our family. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 359 Sicily..was unlikely to give her further trouble, and that, not because she was well-affected, but simply because she was exhausted.
absol.1643[Angier] Lanc. Vall. Achor 10 Whilest the Siege lasted against Manchester, the heavens held a simpathy with the well-affected. 1658Dom. State Papers 360 The petition of the well-affected of Gateshead. 1779Arnot Hist. Edin. i. vi. 206 It had been a common practice of government, to screen the well-affected from the punishment of their murders.
2. Adroitly assumed or simulated.
1907National Church 15 Oct. 277/1 By this process in matters of religion the state will have washed its hands of any responsibility for the moral character of its citizens—a Gallio in its well-affected impartiality of indifference. |