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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.
(Barr, like many cultural conservatives, is flummoxed by America's continued affection for the president: "If the poll results are true and Americans really don't want their leaders to be held personally accountable, then we are in pretty sad shape as a country," he says.)
But I argue from the beginning that black affection for Clinton stems from: 1) a widespread sense among blacks that the economy is doing better by them than ever before; 2) a deliberate Clinton program to court black churchgoers who make up the heart of the black middle class; and 3) Clinton's intuitive understanding that the black middle class is basically conservative on the issues of crime, unwed motherhood, and welfare.
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).
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