Definition of "affectour"
affectour
noun
plural affectours
Obsolete spelling of affecter.
Quotations
A nation once ſo excellent, that their precepts and examples do ſtill remaine, as approued rules and Tutors to inſtruct and direct the man that indeavoureth to be vertuous: famous for government, affectours of freedome, every way noble.
1633, Peter Heylyn, Μικροκοσμος: A Little Description of the Great World, the sixth edition, London: […] William Turner and Robert Allott, page 379
It is not the leaſt of our miſfortunes, that ſins and vices are oft times endear’d to us by falſe Titles and Complements; being couzened with a ſpecious name, though much incoherent to the thing we aſcribe it: or elſe, omitting the vice which is the maine, it intimates onely the vertue, which is the By: As for example, we call an ambitious man μεγαλεπήβολος, a perſon of notable aime and high enterprize; whereas in truth, it ſignifies, an indirect affectour of Grandeur: […]
1653, Modern Policies, Taken from Machiavel, Borgia, and Pther Choice Authors, by an Eye-Witnesse, the fourth edition, London: […] Tho: Dring