affectedly

Etymology

affected + -ly

adv

  1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.
    1614, Thomas Lodge (translator), The Workes of Lucius Annæus Seneca, London: William Stansby, Epistles to Lucilius, Epist. 115, p. 463, The speech is the Image of the minde: if a man mince it, disguise and polish it ouer curiously, it is a signe that he which speaketh it, is an hypocrite, and little worth. It is no manly ornament to speake affectedly.
    I was resolved to decline all imitations for the future, and stick to the original, uncouth as it might be. Better, thought I, to be naturally clownish, than affectedly ridiculous […] 1776, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 68, in Liberal Opinions, volume 4, London: G. Robinson & J. Bew, pages 4–5
    Schomberg turned up, yawning affectedly, almost before Davidson had regained his seat. 1915, Joseph Conrad, chapter 7, in Victory, New York: Modern Library, published 1921, page 57
  2. (obsolete) Lovingly; with tender care.
    1628, John Earle, Micro-cosmographie, or, A Peece of the World Discovered; in Essayes and Characters, London: Edward Blount, 55. “A stayed Man,” One not hasty to pursue the new Fashion, nor yet affectedly true to his old round Breeches.
  3. (obsolete) With intention, intentionally, deliberately.
    […] the Excelsi or high places mentioned in the sacred Story, wherein the Heathen performed idolatrous rites unto their Idols, were commonly groves, affectedly sited upon some mountainous place, without any House or Temple. 1655, Inigo Jones, The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly Called Stone-Heng on Salisbury Plain Restored, London: Daniel Pakeman, page 10

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