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affectional

[uh-fek-shuh-nl] / əˈfɛk ʃə nl /


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Their picture can be read as a tribute to partnership, artistic, or affectional, or both.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

The proposal would define “sex” as including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, sex assigned at birth, gender identity or expression, affectional or sexual orientation and differences in sex development.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

“It is a pathologic and psychiatric diagnosis where an individual person, a child in this case, would be unable to have affectional connection to an adult, to a parent, incapable of exchange of love.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2014

The gay Camelot label, though, doesn't do justice to West Hollywood, whose charm and eccentricity extend far beyond matters of affectional preference.

From Time Magazine Archive

How strange that I should have no children, and only get a little sad sort of happiness, not of the affectional quality!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various




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