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# affectation

«affectation» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A pretended way of speaking, acting or showing a feeling…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (affectation, affectations)

### meaning for a pupil

A pretended way of speaking, acting or showing a feeling, put on to seem clever or grand, not genuine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affectation/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a character who puts on a show of feeling or manners that they do not really have

### examples

- He spoke with an affectation of interest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affectation/#x1)
- The old man showed a great affectation of alarm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affectation/#x2)
- Her grand voice was pure affectation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affectation/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «affectation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/affectation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.