affections's Usage Examples:

it is a more decent way of corrupting them by bribing their fancies and biassing their affections.

which the band sings about being without the object of their affections and likens this condition to being in a hurricane.

most notably defamation (slander and libel), false light, intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy, and alienation of affections.

Though I am gone, our affections exist as usual.

As he slowly regains his memory, Mike recalls his feelings for Susan and challenges Ian for her affections.

Mannering's daughter Julia has in fact been entertaining the affections of Vanbeest Brown, a young cavalry officer from her father's regiment, though she does not admit this to her father.

To lustful men she appears just as a beautiful woman, while to lovestruck men she takes the form of the object of the man's affections.

whimsical, clumsy, early-adolescent girl characters in order to evoke, enflame, and manipulate the interests and affections of viewers.

affections, and according to the razó to one of Arnaut"s poems, the king jealously persuaded her to break off her friendship with Arnaut.

of Micythus appears to have been both wise and vigorous, so that he conciliated the affections of his subjects, and held the government both of Rhegium.

publishing Cynthia, containing direfull sonnets, madrigalls and passionate intercourses, describing his repudiate affections expressed in loves owne language.

At Grisóstomo's funeral, she rejects that she is to blame, stating that her beauty does not oblige her to accept the affections of any of the men who are enraptured by her.

the study of the symbolism attached to clothing, music, other visible affections by members of the subculture, and also the ways in which these same symbols.

Synonyms:

tenderness, attachment, philia, warmness, warmheartedness, soft spot, regard, feeling, heart, fondness, respect, protectiveness, affectionateness, fond regard,

Antonyms:

reject, disrespect, look down on, disesteem, unemotionality,