Meaning of affectour | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of affecter.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“A nation once ſo excellent, that their precepts and examples do ſtill remaine, as approued rules and Tutors to inſtruct and direct the man that indeavoureth to be vertuous: famous for government, affectours of freedome, every way noble.”

“By Peace-makers, Peace-endeavourers are to be understood; not only the Effectours of Peace, but even the Affectours of Peace ſhal be bleſſed.”

“It is not the leaſt of our miſfortunes, that ſins and vices are oft times endear’d to us by falſe Titles and Complements; being couzened with a ſpecious name, though much incoherent to the thing we aſcribe it: or elſe, omitting the vice which is the maine, it intimates onely the vertue, which is the By: As for example, we call an ambitious man μεγαλεπήβολος, a perſon of notable aime and high enterprize; whereas in truth, it ſignifies, an indirect affectour of Grandeur:[…]”

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