Ufafanuzi wa kamusi wa neno "affectation" ni: tabia, usemi, au uandishi ambao ni ghushi na ulioundwa ili kuvutia. Inarejelea tabia au mtindo wa tabia ambao si wa kweli au wa asili, lakini unapitishwa kwa madhumuni ya kuwavutia wengine au kuunda taswira fulani. Inaweza pia kurejelea tendo la kujifanya kuwa na hisia fulani au hisia fulani, au kuweka onyesho bandia la hisia. Kwa ujumla, kuathiriwa ni onyesho la kimakusudi la tabia ambayo si ya kweli au ya dhati.
1. It is after all an affectation, and one for which there is no warrant or excuse.
2. They had music Emma was obliged to play and the thanks and praise which necessarily followed appeared to her an affectation of candour, an air of greatness, meaning only to shew off in higher style her own very superior performance.
3. The eyepiece was more affectation than utilitarian, an admission of which Fosgate would never submit.
4. He took up all my clothes in his pastern, one piece after another, and examined them diligently he then stroked my body very gently, and looked round me several times after which he said, it was plain I must be a perfect yahoo but that I differed very much from the rest of my species, in the softness, whiteness, and smoothness of my skin my want of hair on several parts of my body the shape and shortness of my claws behind and before and my affectation of walking continually on my two hinder feet.
5. I wanted no fence against fraud, or oppression here was neither physician to destroy my body, nor lawyer to ruin my fortune no informer to watch my words and actions, or forge accusations against me for hire here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos no leaders, or followers, of party and faction no encouragers to vice, by seducement or example no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping posts, or pillories no cheating shopkeepers, or mechanics no pride, vanity, or affectation no fops, bullies, drunkards no ranting, expensive wives no stupid, proud pedants no importunate, overbearing, quarrelsome, noisy, roaring, empty, conceited, swearing companions no scoundrels raised from the dust for the sake of their vices, or nobility thrown into it on account of their virtues no lords, fiddlers, judges, or dancing masters.
6. An affectation that allowed him to catch his breath.