affectedly
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Is affectedly a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adv (English)
1. (obsolete) Lovingly; with tender care.Examples: "[…] letters sadly penn’d in blood, With sleided silk feat and affectedly Enswathed, and seal'd to curious secrecy."; "1628, John Earle, Micro-cosmographie, or, A Peece of the World Discovered; in Essayes and Characters, London: Edward Blount, 55. “A stayed Man,” One not hasty to pursue the new Fashion, nor yet affectedly true to his old round Breeches."obsolete
2. (obsolete) With intention, intentionally, deliberately.Examples: "[…] the Excelsi or high places mentioned in the sacred Story, wherein the Heathen performed idolatrous rites unto their Idols, were commonly groves, affectedly sited upon some mountainous place, without any House or Temple."; "I have affectedly made use of this measure here […] because, I think, it would be of general convenience, that this should be the common measure in the Commonwealth of Letters."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary