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Bible Dictionaries
Affect
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
(2):
(n.) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea.
(3):
(n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
(4):
(v. t.) To assign; to appoint.
(5):
(v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
(6):
(v. t.) To love; to regard with affection.
(7):
(v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
(8):
(v. t.) To dispose or incline.
(9):
(v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
(10):
(v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
(11):
(v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Affect'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/affect.html. 1828.
