well-affectedadj.n.

?1563 Visct. Montagu tr. J. Fisher Godlie Treat. Prayer sig. H5 We should not hope that he would sooner be moued, with a multitude of wordes, than with a well affected mynde.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 198/2 If any good men were well affected or minded toward religion.

1609 R. Johnson (title) Nova Britannia: offring most excellent fruites by planting in Virginia. Exciting all such as be well affected to further the same.

1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. To Rdr. (heading) To the well-affected and fauourable Reader.

1664 D. Fleming in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1912) 3rd Ser. 213 Hee Lives in a very well affected Towne, both to the church and State.

1671 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 502 The Presbyterian..party..never were well-affected to a French alliance.

1746 T. Sherlock Let. 10 June in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Earl of Eglinton (1885) 291 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4575) XLIV. 1 The well-affected Clans.

1787 J. Wesley Let. 25 Mar. (1931) VII. 377 Every year more and more of the clergy are convinced of the truth and grow well-affected towards us.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ix. 151 I know you are an honest man, Bunting, and well affected to our family.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 359 Sicily..was unlikely to give her further trouble, and that, not because she was well-affected, but simply because she was exhausted.

1930 A. Pound Johnson of Mohawks xxix. 312 Finally Mr. Croghan makes it quite clear that he wearies of the well affected folk and fertile, flat lands of Detroit.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xli. 244 If bare exeperience [sic], and ordinarie imitation do cause so great thinges to be done by the meere shadow, and roat of these sciences, what would iudiciall cunning do, being ioyned with so well affected experience?

1741 E. F. Haywood Anti-Pamela 59 All which Offers I rejected with (I think, I may say without Vanity) a well-affected vertuous Pride.

1838 Museum of Foreign Lit. Sept. 101 ‘Nay,’ answered Mascari, with well-affected composure, ‘I like not the wines of Cyprus: they are heating.’

1851 E. Bennett Rosalie Du Pont v. 26 ‘O, no—why should I give such orders?’ asked Rosalie, in a well-affected tone of simple surprise.

1907 National Church 15 Oct. 277/1 By this process in matters of religion the state will have washed its hands of any responsibility for the moral character of its citizens—a Gallio in its well-affected impartiality of indifference.

1949 E. Linklater Spell for Old Bones xviii. 150 Doubtfully, fearfully, Od McGammon approached the cradle, and Bala, with an exclamation of well-affected surprise, got up and came towards him.

1577 W. Fulke Overthrow & Confut. Doctr. Purgatory ii. xi. 350 in Two Treat. against Papistes Her terror tormenteth the vertuous, deceiueth the wicked, her hope flattereth the vngodly and disquieteth the well affected.

1643 J. Angier Lancashires Valley of Achor 10 Whilest the Siege lasted against Manchester, the heavens held a simpathy with the well-affected.

1658 Cal. State Papers Domestic Ser. 360 The petition of the well-affected of Gateshead.

1779 H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. i. vi. 206 It had been a common practice of government, to screen the well affected from the punishment of their murders.

1821 Mary of Scotl. i. 10 The Flemings, Hamiltons, Northumbria's Earl, And all the well-affected of the borderers, I have advis'd, that at the appointed cue Their faith and courage may be tested.

1871 J. D. Mccabe Hist. War between Germany & France ix. 378 The well-affected may reassure them selves: as to others, they have but to withdraw.

1970 R. Mitchison Hist. Scotl. (2002) xx. 339 For the time being the ‘Disarming Act’, aimed at potential rebels but observed only by the well-affected, induced military paralysis.