"affection" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

affection sustantivo

affection + verbo
Kolokacji: 3
Affection goes • affection grows • affection develops
verbo + affection
Kolokacji: 23
show affection • feel affection • win one's affection • express affection • return one's affection • ...
adjetivo + affection
Kolokacji: 61
great affection • deep affection • genuine affection • real affection • mutual affection • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 14
(6) obvious, evident, palpable
Kolokacji: 3
(10) sisterly, brotherly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) lifelong, lasting, enduring
Kolokacji: 3
(12) undying, boundless
Kolokacji: 2
(13) nostalgic, wistful
Kolokacji: 2
(14) grudging, tolerant
Kolokacji: 2
1. grudging affection = żałując sympatii grudging affection
2. tolerant affection = tolerancyjna sympatia tolerant affection
  • She continued to treat him with the same tolerant and distracted affection she had always shown, without demonstrating the least curiosity about his mysterious activities.
  • It was more than respect, closer to a tolerant affection.
  • They regarded their two-legged neighbors with tolerant affection.
  • She patted her huge stomach, looking down with tolerant affection at its giant girth.
  • She looked at me with tolerant affection.
  • He spoke with a touching earnestness, and by the light of the stern-lantern Stephen caught a look of tolerant affection on her face.
  • 'So he would be,' agreed Eliud in the soft, musing voice of tolerant affection.
  • Blade regarded him with a tolerant affection.
  • 'Compassion, honesty, integrity and tolerant affection as well as passion.'
  • "You know what he is like, milady," he said, with tolerant affection.
preposición + affection
Kolokacji: 13
with affection • of affection • for one's affections • in affection • to affection • ...

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