affectuosity

[Low Lat. affectuositas, fr. Cla . Lat, affectuosus = full of inclination or love.] The quality of being full of love or other pa ion; pa ionatene . (Johnson: Dict.) *af-fěc-tu-ous, a . [In Ital. affettuoso ; Lat. affectuosus full of love; from affect us = (1) state or disposition of body or mind, (2) sympathy, love.] Affectionate. (Scotch.) "We aucht to lufe our self and sa our nichtbour with ane affectuous and trew lufe unfeynitly."Archtp. Hamilton: Catech . (1551). *af-féc-tu-ous-ly, * af-fěc'-te-ous-lỹ, adv. [AFFECTUOUS.] 1. Affectionately. "I have sought hym desirously. I have sought hym affectuously." Reliq. Antiq., 11. 157. "After hys death his life again was daily wished and affecteously emong his subjectes desyred."- Hall : Edward IV . , 1. 61. 2. Pa ionately. "To locke up the gates of true knowledge from them that affectuously seketh it to the glory of God, is a property bel or.gynge onlye to the hypocritish Pharisees and false lawyers." -Leland : New Year's Gift.