Word Meanings - AFFECTATIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.

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• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• AFFECTATION
  1. An attempt 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
• FITZ
  A son; -- used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence.
• INAFFECTATION
  Freedom from affectation; naturalness.