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Affecting   /əfˈɛktɪŋ/   Listen
Affecting

adjective
1.
Arousing affect.  Synonyms: poignant, touching.  "Poignant grief cannot endure forever" , "His gratitude was simple and touching"


Affect

verb
(past & past part. affected; pres. part. affecting)
1.
Have an effect upon.  Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on.
2.
Act physically on; have an effect upon.
3.
Connect closely and often incriminatingly.  Synonyms: involve, regard.
4.
Make believe with the intent to deceive.  Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham.  "He shammed a headache"
5.
Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.  Synonyms: impress, move, strike.  "This behavior struck me as odd"



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"Affecting" Quotes from Famous Books



... or Gli Otto, were a magistracy in Florence with cognizance of matters affecting the internal peace ...
— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini
... name, I started. It was a name too closely connected with the image of thy brother, not to call up affecting and vivid recollections. Weymouth, thou knowest, was thy brother's friend. It is three years since this man left America, during which time no tidings had been heard of him,—at least, by thy brother. He had now returned, and was probably ...
— Edgar Huntley • Charles Brockden Brown
... lips thereof, and a white wand in his hand, completed the description of what we may suppose a respectable-looking man of the province and period. Being demanded concerning her first interview with this mysterious Thome Reid, she gave rather an affecting account of the disasters with which she was then afflicted, and a sense of which perhaps aided to conjure up the imaginary counsellor. She was walking between her own house and the yard of Monkcastle, driving her cows to the common pasture, and making heavy moan with herself, weeping ...
— Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft • Sir Walter Scott
... she comes to be quiet and enjoy herself. Pretend we don't see her, that's only civil,' answered Bess, affecting to be absorbed in a white-winged ...
— Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... nothing—more serious, then? That, of course, is serious enough. Nothing, I mean, directly affecting your prospects ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill


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