affectour
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "By Peace-makers, Peace-endeavourers are to be understood; not only the Effectours of Peace, but even the Affectours of Peace ſhal be bleſſed."
- "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:[…]"