affectional
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 urge is for affectional interchange that goes beyond the anesthetized handshake or the slap on the back.
From Time Magazine Archive
A human institution, called out by the needs of social, affectional human nature, for human purposes, its objects are, first, the happiness of the parties immediately concerned, and, secondly, the welfare of society.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
