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affect

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1. affect - Noun

2. affect - Verb

Meaning

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.

To love; to regard with affection.

To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.

To dispose or incline.

To aim at; to aspire; to covet.

To tend to by affinity or disposition.

To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.

To assign; to appoint.

Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. Bob Marley

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. Robert Louis Stevenson

In affect you can break even an elm. Russian Proverb

What affects the nose must also affect the eyes that must weep for it. Nigerian Proverb

A chicken's prayer doesn't affect a hawk. African Proverb

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