affectional

Example Sentences

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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

Another item calls for a legal end to discrimination based on "sexual and affectional preference"�in short, acceptance of lesbianism.

From Time Magazine Archive

It prizes most highly the helpless, economically worthless infant; it measures every member by his personal character, his affectional worth.

From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick