affections

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FreePrints is an offshoot of online photo printing shop Photo Affections, which perhaps explains why it can offer 85 free 4″ x 6″ prints per month.

From Time • Feb. 12, 2015

Q. Unwanted Affections: I first met Jacob when I was 18 years old at the tutoring center of the college I was attending.

From Slate • Sep. 2, 2014

Affections seem equally divided, except for one member, Harry Styles, the obvious heartthrob, who resembles a less gnomish Mick Jagger.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2013

Though nothing so much gains upon the Affections as this Extempore Eloquence, which we have constantly Occasion for, and are obliged to practice every Day, we very rarely meet with any who excel in it.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

As early as 1744 Edwards, in his sermons on the Religious Affections, had plainly intimated his dislike of this practice.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various