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affinities 音标拼音: [əf'ɪnətiz] Affinity \ Af* fin" i* ty\, n.; pl. { Affinities}. [ OF. afinit[' e], F. affinit[' e], L. affinites, fr. affinis. See { Affined}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Relationship by marriage ( as between a husband and his wife' s blood relations, or between a wife and her husband' s blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. [ 1913 Webster] Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. -- 1 Kings iii. 1. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages. [ 1913 Webster] There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity. -- Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Companionship; acquaintance. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. -- Burton. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Chem.) That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Nat. Hist.) A relation between species or higher groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin. [ 1913 Webster] 6. ( Spiritualism) A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction. [ 1913 Webster]
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