affectional
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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 urge is for affectional interchange that goes beyond the anesthetized handshake or the slap on the back.
From Time Magazine Archive
It makes the greatness, the vastness, the infinitude of our intellectual and affectional nature a blessing.
From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker
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