Definition of "affectionate" []

• Having or showing fond feelings or affection; loving and tender. (adjective)
• Obsolete Inclined or disposed. (adjective)

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• ""Half the trouble is the stupidity of the whites," said Roberts, pausing to take a swig from his glass and to curse the Samoan bar-boy in affectionate terms."
• "First Impression: Daphne is described as an affectionate and nonjudgmental confidante who has tall, model-like looks and lots of patience."
• "A comparison with Jane Austen's early work springs to mind, because Austen began her literary career at much the same age nearly a century earlier, with Love and Freindship [sic] and other exercises in affectionate parody."