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

The urge is for affectional interchange that goes beyond the anesthetized handshake or the slap on the back.

From Time Magazine Archive

His letters to her in the midst of his busy life show the beautiful spirit of the man, who was too great ever to rise above his affectional nature.

From Famous American Statesmen by Bolton, Sarah Knowles