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She thinks deeply and has an affinity for others with the same kind of mind.affinity = a natural attraction or sympathy
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But let me ask you another question: Has excess of pleasure any affinity to temperance?† (source)
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In this respect, it has as much affinity to a legislative assembly as to an executive council.† (source)
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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.† (source)
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And great affinity and that in wholesome wisdom† (source)
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He was to learn a dialect, in which he could be assisted by no affinity with the languages he already knew.† (source)
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She loved Emma Jane, but it was a friendship born of propinquity and circumstance, not of true affinity.† (source)
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But the public gaze of the stairway mirror as she hurried toward it revealed a woman on her way to a funeral, an austere, joyless woman moreover, whose black carapace had affinities with some form of matchbox-dwelling insect.† (source)
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Litvinoff had always felt a certain affinity with this friend, and he was anxious to know what he'd been doing the last few years. (source)affinity = natural attraction or feeling of kinship
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Years ago Albert used to entertain the idea of certain affinities between himself and the great Fermi.† (source)
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Tell them there's a natural affinity between the West and the Orient. (source)affinity = a natural attraction or feeling of being connected
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Writing these stories, which eventually appeared joined together in the book called The Golden Apples, was an experience in a writer's own discovery of affinities.† (source)
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an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the... (source)affinity = a natural feeling of kinship
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Thus Cottard, who had affinities with it, drew Rambert's attention to the absence of the dogs that in normal times would have been seen sprawling in the shadow of the doorways, panting, trying to find a nonexistent patch of coolness.† (source)
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In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical one. (source)affinity = attraction
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Odd affinities she had with people she had never spoken to, some woman in the street, some man behind a counter—even trees, or barns.† (source)
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