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affectedly, adv.|əˈfɛktɪdlɪ|
[f. affected a. I. + -ly2.]
In an affected manner; with affectation or affection.
†1. With aim or desire, with true intent; intentionally, sincerely, earnestly.
1596Chapman Iliad ii. (355 note) Simple, well-meaning, standing still affectedly on telling truth. 1628Earle Microcosm. lxxviii. 161 One not hasty to pursue the new fashion, nor yet affectedly true to his old round breeches. 1690Locke Hum. Underst. (1727) I. iv. x. §10. 293, I have affectedly made use of this measure..because I think it would be of general convenience. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. Ded. 26 [He] goes affectedly out of his way to do it.
†2. With favourable affection; affectionately, lovingly. Obs.
1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. iv. iv. 123 Methinkes she's very affectedly enclin'd To young Sebastian's company o' late.
3. With affectation or studied art; artifically, fancifully. (Opposed to simply or naturally.)
1617Holyoke Dict. Etym. ii. Affectatè..affectedly, with overmuch curiosity. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 359 Some..have beene so affectedly vaine as to counterfeit Immortality. 1673Ladies Calling i. i. §14 Their gesture, their language, nay sometimes their habit too being affectedly masculine. 1787Bonnycastle Astron. xii. 198 His philosophical notions are..affectedly mysterious and obscure. 1838Hallam Hist. Lit. I. i. vi. §16. 369 If ‘Gospel light,’ as Gray has rather affectedly expressed it, had not ‘flashed from Boleyn's eyes.’ 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. I. App. 683 The person affectedly described as ‘Lupus’ is really Archbishop Wulfstan.
4. With studied simulation; with appearance rather than reality; pretendingly, hypocritically.
1656W. Dugard Lat. Unlocked §674. 207 Do nothing affectedly, dissemblingly, appearingly for fashions sake. 1795T. Hurlstone Crotchet Lodge 41, Miss Crotchet. O, dear Doctor [turning from him affectedly]. 1839James Louis XIV II. 336 Terrified at a tumult, that he had at first affectedly despised. 1861F. Nightingale Nursing 35 An affectedly sympathising voice, like an undertaker's at a funeral. |