Words similar to affection

Example sentences for: affection

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It was formerly applied to a woman who had an endearing personality, who was beloved, esteemed, a person on whom to lavish affection, the man's cherished dear.
The more you overestimate your undying affection, the more likely you are to win the auction--and the more likely you are to feel like an idiot in 2009.
But it is not because of any affection for, or preoccupation with its technical architecture, or with its internal folkways.
He said he has engaged in similar displays of affection with 'scores and scores of men and women who have worked for me or been my friends over the years.
To hold the priesthood is a euphemism for any sort of physical affection displayed by women towards men (since all men, at least in principle, are members of the priesthood); the Word of Wisdom is a reference to Mormons' dietary laws (which prohibit smoking, alcohol, drugs, and caffeine-containing hot drinks); Primary is a reference to children up to the age of eleven (as with the Relief Society, this is an example of the name of the organization being extended generally to its members).