a. [f. AFFECTION sb. + -AL 1. Cf. rational.] Of or pertaining to the affections; having affections.

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1859.  T. Parker, Exper. as Minister, 112. The leading Reformers are men of large intellect, of profound morality, earnest, affectional men.

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1862.  F. Hall, Refut. Hindu Philos., 228. Affectional cognition is a property of the mind.

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1864.  E. Sargent, Peculiar, I. 65. The affectional part of his nature was touched.

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