affectional

Example Sentences

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Their picture can be read as a tribute to partnership, artistic, or affectional, or both.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

The proposal would define “sex” as including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, sex assigned at birth, gender identity or expression, affectional or sexual orientation and differences in sex development.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022

“It is a pathologic and psychiatric diagnosis where an individual person, a child in this case, would be unable to have affectional connection to an adult, to a parent, incapable of exchange of love.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2014

The urge is for affectional interchange that goes beyond the anesthetized handshake or the slap on the back.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are sanitary reasons against kissing, such as transmission of germs of disease; but aside from this, there are affectional reasons why kisses should be few, and these few spontaneous rather than required.

From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Wood-Allen, Mary