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affinity


affinity is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife`s blood relations, or between a wife and her husband`s blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

[2] Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages. There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity. Sir G. C. Lewis.

[3] Companionship; acquaintance. [Obs.] About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.

[4] That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.

[5] A relation between species or highe

[6] A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.


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