Definition of "affectedly"

The speech is the Image of the minde: if a man mince it, disguise and polish it ouer curiously, it is a signe that he which speaketh it, is an hypocrite, and little worth. It is no manly ornament to speake affectedly.

1614, Thomas Lodge (translator), The Workes of Lucius Annæus Seneca, London: William Stansby, Epistles to Lucilius, Epist. 115, p. 463

I was resolved to decline all imitations for the future, and stick to the original, uncouth as it might be. Better, thought I, to be naturally clownish, than affectedly ridiculous […]

1776, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 68, in Liberal Opinions‎, volume 4, London: G. Robinson & J. Bew, pages 4–5

Her manners shewed good sense and good breeding; they were neither shy, nor affectedly open […]

1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), page 114

Schomberg turned up, yawning affectedly, almost before Davidson had regained his seat.

1915, Joseph Conrad, chapter 7, in Victory‎, New York: Modern Library, published 1921, page 57

[…] letters sadly penn’d in blood,With sleided silk feat and affectedlyEnswathed, and seal'd to curious secrecy.

1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley

One not hasty to pursue the new Fashion, nor yet affectedly true to his old round Breeches.

1628, John Earle, Micro-cosmographie, or, A Peece of the World Discovered; in Essayes and Characters, London: Edward Blount, 55. “A stayed Man,”

[…] the Excelsi or high places mentioned in the sacred Story, wherein the Heathen performed idolatrous rites unto their Idols, were commonly groves, affectedly sited upon some mountainous place, without any House or Temple.

1655, Inigo Jones, The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly Called Stone-Heng on Salisbury Plain Restored‎, London: Daniel Pakeman, page 10

I have affectedly made use of this measure here […] because, I think, it would be of general convenience, that this should be the common measure in the Commonwealth of Letters.

1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 10, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], book IV, page 314