affectivelyadv.
/əˈfɛktɪvli/, /aˈfɛktɪvli/, U.S. /əˈfɛktɪvli/, /æˈfɛktɪvli/ In an affective manner.† 1. As a result of affectation. Obsolete. rare.† 3. In a manner that influences conduct, etc. Obsolete.† 4. With respect to inner disposition or essence. Obsolete.
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1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 58 Modesty mixt with humility will..make that Behauiour which appeares in you, so well become you, as if it were borne with you, and not affectiuely deriued from others to you.
2. As regards the affections or emotions; emotionally. In modern use chiefly Psychology and Psychiatry: by or with reference to affect (affect n. 5b). Cf. affective adj. 1c.
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the mind > emotion > [adverb]
affectively1646
sentimentallya1806
pathologically1824
pathematicallya1832
emotionally1836
emotively1843
sensationally1855
1646 E. Leigh Treat. Divinity ii. xii. 92 The Scripture proves the justice of God..Affectively, when it Attributes to him zeale, anger, fury.
1852 A. P. Forbes Explan. Nicene Creed 324 The highest happiness consists intellectually in the sight of God, and affectively in the adherence of the will to the Supreme Will.
1895 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 7 63 Was the affective judgement constant?.. Each particular saturation was affectively estimated only nine times.
1936 C. A. Ruckmick Psychol. Feeling & Emotion x. 276 The technical recording of bodily changes made in response to affectively experienced objects and situations.
1985 J. McDougall Theatres of Mind (1986) vi. 142 A delibidinized or alexithymic discourse may be studded with affectively toned words.
1991 Internat. Jrnl. Public Opinion Res. 3 346 These choices may utilize information to activate, whether cognitively or affectively, schemata bearing on the formation of new attitudes.
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the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adverb]
affectively1647
influentially1670
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Philipp. iii. 10) 251 And may know him..not apprehensively only, but affectively.
a1677 T. Manton 190 Serm. on 119th Psalm (1681) clviii. 866 Affectively, when though he retaineth the notions, yet he is not answerably affected, he doth not act suitably.
a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1778) X. 43 That of grace, which both argumentatively and affectively teaches what the law does authoritatively and preceptively.
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the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [adverb]
naturally1526
complexionably1643
affectively1649
complexionally1715
temperamentally1861
1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) Introd. to Rdr. iii. 53 In some sense God cannot repent, viz. Affectively, in respect of his essence.
1724 A. Gavin Master-key Popery i. 21 I have not transgressed this Commandment effectively and immediately, but I have done it affectively and mediately, and at second-hand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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