affectionally
Anglais[modifier le wikicode]
Étymologie[modifier le wikicode]
- Dérivé de affectional avec le suffixe adverbial -ly.
Adverbe [modifier le wikicode]
affectionally \Prononciation ?\
- D’une manière affective, affectivement.
- Boys who are affectionally close to their mothers and girls who are unually close to their fathers during the years from four to seven tend to be more creative than others of similar ability. — (John Curtis Gowan, Development of the Creative Individual, p. 55. R. R. Knapp Publishers, 1972.)
- A person with several siblings might have an affectionally bonded relationship with one or more of them and casual relationships with the others (...) — (James E. Birren et Judy Livingston, Cognition, Stress, and Aging, p. 73. Prentice-Hall publishers, coll. « ANI series on aging » n° 1, 1985.)
- D’une manière familière, familièrement.
- Affectionally known as “La Trochita” (“little narrow gauge” in Spanish), the locomotive’s tracks are a mere 75cm wide. — (The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget, p. 173, encadré « The Old Patagonian Express ». Rough Guides UK, 2012.)
- Lincoln never let on he was afraid when he asked his six-foot-four, 300-pound friend, Ward Hill Lamon, who he affectionally called, “Hill”, to ride with him to Washington. — (E. Lawrence Abel, A Finger in Lincoln’s Brain : What Modern Science Reveals about Lincoln, His Assassination, and Its Aftermath, chap. 1 (« A Target on His Back », p. 1. Praeger Publisgers, 2015.)