affectation
名词 n.
英 /ˌæf.ɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
美 /ˌæf.ɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
英文释义
名词 n.
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An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
— This poem is strongly tinctured with those pedantic affectations concerning the passion of love ...
- An unusual mannerism.
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An ostentatious fondness for something.
— The grace diuineſt Mercvrie hath done me, / In this vouchſafde diſcouerie of himſelfe, / Binds my obſeruance in the vtmoſt terme / Of ſatisfaction, to his godly will: / Though I profeſſe (without the affectation / Of an enforc’d, and form’d auſteritie) / I could be willing to enioy no place / With ſo vnequall natures.
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Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Proto-Italic *adfakjō
Proto-Italic *adfaktāō
Latin affectō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin affectātiōder.
Middle French affectationbor.
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Latin affectātiōbor.
English affectation
From Middle French affectation and its etymon Latin affectātiōnem, from affectō (“to feign”). By surface analysis, affect + -ation.
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Proto-Italic *adfakjō
Proto-Italic *adfaktāō
Latin affectō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin affectātiōder.
Middle French affectationbor.
▲
Latin affectātiōbor.
English affectation
From Middle French affectation and its etymon Latin affectātiōnem, from affectō (“to feign”). By surface analysis, affect + -ation.
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