affected
/əˈfɛktɪd/ adjective B1- Influenced or changed by something. · The affected products had to be recalled.
- Simulated in order to impress. · He spoke with an affected English accent.· The affected articulation of his opinions made it challenging to discern his true stance.
- Emotionally moved; touched.
- Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.
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In spite of what her sister declared, and really believed to be her feelings, in the expectation of his arrival, Elizabeth could easily perceive that her spirits were affected by it.
The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon, which he reached as she rounded into La Réserve basin.
“Speak as fully as you please, sir,” said the king, who began to give way to the emotion which had showed itself in Blacas’s face and affected Villefort’s voice.
It might have been done under such pledges as would have prevented him from speaking of it, and yet would have affected his thoughts in the direction indicated by his remarks to his fiancée.
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