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affecting

Part of Speech: Noun

Results: 3

1. Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight.

2. Affected; given to false show.

Part of Speech: imperfect, past participle

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" That is really very fine," said M. Querini; and everybody exclaimed, " Very affecting, very affecting indeed!" - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
Long- continued treatment with alcohol apparently destroys the luciferase without affecting the co- luciferase. - "The Nature of Animal Light", E. Newton Harvey.
But I have cured some of these Disorders with the Bark, and especially those affecting the Eyes, which happen oftner than the other Symptoms, after their Duration for many Weeks, and after the ineffectual Use of Bleeding, Purging, Baths, Waters, Blisters, and a great Number of other Medicines. - "Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health", Samuel Auguste David Tissot.

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