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affectionately

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af·fec·tion·ate  (-fksh-nt)
adj.
1. Having or showing fond feelings or affection; loving and tender.
2. Obsolete Inclined or disposed.

af·fection·ate·ly adv.
af·fection·ate·ness n.
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Adv.1.affectionately - with affection; "she loved him dearly"; "he treats her affectionately"
Translations
affectionately [əˈfɛkʃənɪtlɪ] advafectuosamente
affectionately [əˈfɛkʃənɪtlɪ] advaffectueusement
affectionately [əˈfɛkʃənɪtlɪ] affection advliebevoll, zärtlich
affectionately [əˈfɛkʃənɪtlɪ] advaffettuosamente


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He feasted his eyes on the words above the signature: she signed herself, "Yours gratefully and affectionately.
My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay, but their hospitable and cheerful dispositions lead them too much into society for my present situation and state of mind; and I impatiently look forward to the hour when I shall be admitted into Your delightful retirement.
We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when, at last, by reason of our confabulations, what little nappishness remained in us altogether departed, and we felt like getting up again, though day-break was yet some way down the future.
 
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