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mpt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. Locke.

One who exhibits affectation. [R.] Fitzed. Hall.

Freedom from affectation; naturalness. [R.]

Affectation.

Affectation. [Obs.] "Spruce affection." Shak.

To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic. The rankest rogue that ever canted. Beau. & Fl.

Caontaining cant or affectation; whining; singing. [R.]

iercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison.

oration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love. "Little affectations of coquetry." Addison.

To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc. Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. Landor.

d of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations. [Recent] The social dude who affects English dress and English drawl. The American.

An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.

The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.

Like gossamer; flimsy. The greatest master of gossamery affectation. De Quincey.

Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.

A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison.…

Theatrical representation; acting; affectation. Sir T. Browne.

ate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem.

Newmade; formed with the affectation of novelty. "A newfangled nomenclature." Sir W. Hamilton.

Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.