单词 | affecter |
释义 | affectern.ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > affection > [noun] > one who feels affection (for) minderc1450 affecter1568 affectator1610 carer1691 fondler1720 1568 C. Watson tr. Polybius Hystories f. 16v I think they were deceyved (as affectoures are accustomed). 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E7v Madam, your father and th' Arabian king, The first affecter of your excellence, Comes now. 1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 373 Famous for gouernment; affectours of freedome. 1638 T. Venner Treat. Tobacco (1650) 404 These idle affectors of Tobacco. 1657 Lusts Dominion v. i. sig. G2v Bring forth the Princes drest in royal robes, The true affecter of Alvero's son, Virtuous Hortenzo. 2. A person who displays a (real or pretended) predilection for something; a professed adherent or practitioner (of). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > studied fondness or display > person affecter1580 affectator1725 the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > ostentatious person > one making ostentatious display of something affecter1580 affectator1725 1580 Second & Third Blast Plaies To Rdr. sig. A.iv A great affecter of that vaine Art of plaie making. 1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xlii. sig. H11 A great affecter of wits and such pretinesses. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 30 Vain affecters of words, ignorant of those things which they profest. a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. xlviii. 499 Our Saviour was no Affecter of Novelty in Devotion. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 20. ⁋14 The affector of great excellencies. 1830 S. T. Coleridge On Constit. Church & State 168 There are few [charges], if any, that I should be more anxious to avoid than that of being an affecter of paradoxes. 1882 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 3 312 Except, to the best of my information, in the pages of Dr. Thomas Fuller and Milton,—both of them studious affecters of conciseness. 1970 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 10 359 In the first half of the play Daw is shown as the pretender to wit and learning while La Foole is seen an the affecter of gallantry and nobility of ancestry. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected person affecter1607 snuffler1642 languisher1713 attitudinarian1756 attitudinizer1824 pseudo1829 posturer1833 posturist1857 poseur1869 affectationist1873 Turveydrop1877 posturant1882 poser1888 four-flusher1904 gobdaw1947 nerd1951 pseud1954 jive-ass1964 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 238 Neither can these fine finicall affecters alleadge the Italian tongue..to warrant their pronunciation. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Affectateur, an affector; one that (curiously) imitates a fashion, or takes on him a habit, which either becomes or befits him not. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1568 |
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