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Af*fin"i*ty (&unr_;), n.; pl. Affinities (&unr_;). [OF. afinité, F. affinité, L. affinites, fr. affinis. See Affined.]
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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.
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Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.
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2. Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.
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There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity. Sir G. C. Lewis.
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2. Companionship; acquaintance. [Obs.]
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About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.
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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.
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5. (Nat. Hist.) A relation between species or higher groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.
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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.
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