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affection noun admiration, adoration, ardor, attachment, closeness, devotion, endearment, excitation of feeling, fancy, feeling, fervor, firm attachment, fondness, fullness of heart, inclination, infatuation, kindness, love, mutual attraction, partiality, passion, penchant, pietas, popular regard, proneness, regard, sentiment, sentimental attachment, sentimentality, state of excitement, tender feellng, tender passion, tenderness, understanding, warmth, zealous attachment Associated concepts: alienation of affection See also: affinity, benevolence, predilection, predisposition, regard AFFECTION, contracts. The making over, pawning, or mortgaging a thing to assure the payment of a sum of money, or the discharge of some other duty or service. Techn. Diet. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The DAS consists of 32 items in
four subscales: Dyadic Consensus, Dyadic Satisfaction, Dyadic Cohesion
and Affectional Expressions. Nonetheless, against most of the evidence and all the common sense,
Bailey continues to maintain the rejected theory that one's
identity and one's affectional preference line up the way the VFW
guys think they should. Steele, "Gracious Affections" and
"True Virtue" according to Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley
(Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1994) for extensive treatments of
Wesley's affectional psychology
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