† 1. With aim or desire, with true intent; intentionally, sincerely, earnestly.
1596. Chapman, Iliad, II. (355 note). Simple, well-meaning, standing still affectedly on telling truth.
1628. Earle, Microcosm., lxxviii. 161. One not hasty to pursue the new fashion, nor yet affectedly true to his old round breeches.
1690. Locke, Hum. Underst. (1727), I. IV. x. § 10. 293. I have affectedly made use of this measure … because I think it would be of general convenience.
1738. Warburton, Div. Legat., I. Ded. 26. [He] goes affectedly out of his way to do it.
† 2. With favorable affection; affectionately, lovingly. Obs.
1611. Tourneur, Ath. Trag., IV. iv. 123. Methinkes she’s very affectedly enclin’d To young Sebastian’s company o’ late.
3. With affectation or studied art; artificially, fancifully. (Opposed to simply or naturally.)
1617. Holyoke, Dict. Etym., II. Affectatè … affectedly, with overmuch curiosity.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 359. Some … have beene so affectedly vaine as to counterfeit Immortality.
1673. Ladies Calling, I. i. § 14. Their gesture, their language, nay sometimes their habit too being affectedly masculine.
1787. Bonnycastle, Astron., xii. 198. His philosophical notions are … affectedly mysterious and obscure.
1838. Hallam, Hist. Lit., I. I. vi. § 16. 369. If ‘Gospel light,’ as Gray has rather affectedly expressed it, had not ‘flashed from Boleyn’s eyes.’
1876. Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. App. 683. The person affectedly described as ‘Lupus’ is really Archbishop Wulfstan.
4. With studied simulation; with appearance rather than reality; pretendingly, hypocritically.
1656. Du Gard, Lat. Unlocked, § 674. 207. Do nothing affectedly, dissemblingly, appearingly for fashions sake.
1795. T. Hurlstone, Crotchet Lodge, 41. Miss Crotchet. O, dear Doctor [turning from him affectedly].
1839. G. P. R. James, Louis XIV., II. 336. Terrified at a tumult, that he had at first affectedly despised.
1861. Flor. Nightingale, Nursing, 35. An affectedly sympathising voice, like an undertaker’s at a funeral.
