(a.) Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.
(a.) Kindly inclined; zealous.
(a.) Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language.
(a.) Strongly inclined; -- with to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Management and treatment issues are surveyed, such as the necessity to recognize that in some adolescents violence erupts not from narcissitic rage but from strong wishes for affectionate contact.
(2) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(3) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(4) Or that British ministers would one day talk again with affectionate solicitude about French and German unemployment rates.
(5) ‘He needed help and they just took him’ Williamson Street, on the east side of Madison, is affectionately known to its diverse residents as “Willy Street”.
(6) The Clegg-Cameron marriage in the Rose Garden last May is the tableau that sticks in the mind, but it paved the way for other extraordinary images such as Andrew Lansley and Vince Cable patting each other's arms affectionately in Downing Street , on their way into the first coalition cabinet meeting since the war.
(7) Is "The Chalice" actually the Copenhagen Police Headquarters, affectionately referred to by its denizens as "The Chalice" (could this be "The Chalice"?)
(8) The sample as a whole saw mothers were more over-involved, overprotective, tolerant, affectionate, stimulating, performance-orientated and shaming.
(9) She is, by the way, a beautiful and affectionate cat.
(10) The mother is irascible, the father aloof; on the other hand, the parental combination "mother and father affectionate" is more common.
(11) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(12) He was affectionately renowned for his short arms and long pockets in the post-match rounds at the Bell and Hare pub in Tottenham High Street, and the giant suitcase he perpetually brought along on foreign tours was a running joke among his team-mates, who maintained it was to carry all his money.
(13) The matricidal group differed from the control group in the way they viewed the difference between mother and father on various scales, like over-involved, tolerant, affectionate and performance-orientated.
(14) Or that it still plays most home games in a modest 31-year-old, 6,500-seat on-campus field house affectionately known as the Ski Lodge.
(15) Prenatal ultrasound scans are believed to enable mothers to form an early affectionate bond to their child, to provide a reassuring image of the fetus, and to promote improvements in mothers' health behaviors on the behalf of the fetus.
(16) He had close and affectionate relations with the monarchs, as revealed in one poem entitled Lines for January 20th death of his father, George V. The poem reads: "Beyond the river-side; The frozen fields stretch wide; To where the beech-clumps bide; Leafless and still; In snow upon the hill; I think of One who died."
(17) The Gun raises an interesting moral dilemma both for the author and the reader over whether it is ethical to write or to read an affectionate account of a device that could be considered inherently evil.
(18) For Kenny Deuchar, known affectionately as Doctor Goals, balancing the pressure of treating patients as a qualified doctor and scoring goals as a professional footballer has been something he has balanced for well over a decade.
(19) In its story, which added "(We'll see you in Ukwaine against Fwance)", the Sun said Hodgson was "affectionately known as Woy due to his speech impediment".
(20) Evidently, Richards saw the impersonation as an affectionate tribute, and in this third picture in the franchise he has a brief role as Jack Sparrow's wonderfully seedy father, Captain Jack Teague.
Ardent
Definition:
(a.) Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.
(a.) Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes.
(a.) Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet what has been unfolding in the past 15 months or so should make even the most ardent pro-European think about an orderly mechanism for making member states exit: the euro crisis and, less obviously, Hungary's backsliding from liberal democracy to a soft form of authoritarianism, or what an American paper recently called " Lukashenko lite ".
(2) Long regarded as the most ardently pro-European party in British politics, the Lib Dems have pledged to do everything they can to campaign for Britain to remain in the EU and hope to win support from voters who regret the result of June’s referendum.
(3) He was as ardent as any Democrat to see the back of George Bush, but was never swept up in Obamania.
(4) Those same countries which are most resistant to immigration are often the most ardent proponents of the free market which has created this situation and the same countries that are profiting out of the opening up of their eastern European neighbours.
(5) For Tories, it's no problem – they ardently want to cut the state back as hard as they dare.
(6) Elizabeth Wallschlager, a Panamanian immigrant and a Catholic, said: “I don’t think the pope said that.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest An ardent Trump supporter from Kiawah Island, she added: “I think that it’s a misunderstanding.
(7) Even the most ardent Republican supporter must realise that historically the party has tended to boost the wealth of the few rather than the many.
(8) But Trump’s performance seemed to ease the concerns of attendees who represented some of the most ardent cultural warriors in the party, a group that has long been uncomfortable with the party’s nominee, and preferred other candidates like Ted Cruz during the primary.
(9) He must have been one of the few children who noticed that an animating crisis in Mary Poppins was a run on a bank; less surprising is his memory of rats in the streets after the rubbish collectors' strike in the 70s, which engendered an enduring scepticism about the Labour party (though, "like any intelligent teenager" he was briefly an ardent Labour supporter and briefly a Scottish nationalist - "I'm promiscuous that way").
(10) Even the most ardent Kobe apologist cannot deny that he committed an aggressive act of infidelity and made himself look terrible in his initial statements to police, where he lamented not simply paying off his alleged victim.
(11) These ardent conservatives are also challenging the conventional wisdom – and testimony from the US Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, that the US would be at high risk of default once its borrowing authority expires on Thursday.
(12) Belmondo could treat women tenderly (as the priest dealing with an ardent parishioner in Léon Morin, prêtre) and harshly (beating up a treacherous moll in Le Doulos).
(13) Although ardent strides have been made in the realm of diagnosis and follow-up with the advent of ultrasonography, mortality and morbidity have not changed appreciably over the past 20 years.
(14) On one side were the “ardent internationalists”, “comfortable Europhiles” and “engaged metropolitans”, while “strong sceptics” and “EU hostiles” occupied the other pole.
(15) Zlatan’s many ardent supporters, those who are fans as opposed to curious neutral observers, might not like it.
(16) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
(17) Jones told Turnbull that because he had had dinner with Palmer, a trenchant critic of Abbott, “people” were suggesting that “precisely because you have no hope ever of being the leader again – you have got that into your head, no hope ever – that because of that you are happy to chuck a few bombs around that might blow up Abbott a bit, that is what they are saying.” Turnbull replied that it was Jones who was undermining the Abbott government and “doing the work of the Labor party”, a charge not usually levelled at the Sydney announcer who is an ardent supporter of the prime minister.
(18) Not even the most ardent Brexiteer would want to rush into a notification under article 50.
(19) Luckily, many of Prop 187’s and SB 1070’s most ardent supporters are now either eternally vilified ( Governor Pete Wilson ), politically irrelevant ( Governor Jan Brewer ) or in massive legal problems ( Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ).
(20) Among the list of eminent speakers on the platform at the inaugural meeting in November 1955 – at the Central Methodist hall in Westminster – was the novelist JB Priestley, Lord Pakenham (later Lord Longford, a member of the incoming Labour government in 1964, and a lifelong penal reformer), Gerald Gardiner QC (Labour’s lord chancellor from 1964-70) as Lord Gardiner, a passionate law reformer and ardent abolitionist, and CH Rolph (a prominent writer and a former inspector of police in the City of London).