Definition of "affectionate"

affectionate¹

/əˈfɛkʃənət/

adjective
comparative more affectionate, superlative most affectionate
1. (of a person) Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond.
2. (of an action, etc.) Characterised by or proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender.
  Quotations
  Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer's office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.
  1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […]
3. (obsolete) Eager; passionate; strongly inclined toward something.

affectionate²

/əˈfɛkʃəneɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present affectionates, present participle affectionating, simple past and past participle affectionated
1. (rare) To show affection to; to have affection for.
2. (obsolete, reflexive) To emotionally attach (oneself) to.
  Quotations
  Plutarch saith fitly of those who affectionate themselves to Monkies and little Dogges, that […].
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
  And firſt, his Majeſty would have you to underſtand, That there was never any King more loving to his People, or better affectionated to the right uſe of Parliaments, than his Majeſty hath approved himſelf to be, […].
  1721, John Rushworth, Historical Collections Of Private Passages of State, etc.: 1618—1629, volume 1, page 222
  Ever my dear Kate your affectionated husband / CHARLES DICKENS
  1838 February 1, Charles Dickens, To Catherine Dickens, 2012, Jenny Hartley (editor), The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, page 41