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English
Noun
affectour (plural affectours)
- Obsolete spelling of affecter.
1633, Peter Heylyn, Μικροκοσμος: A Little Description of the Great World, the sixth edition, London: William Turner and Robert Allott, page 379: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.
1642 December 28, The Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller, D.D., 1631-1659, volume 1, London, published 1891:By Peace-makers, Peace-endeavourers are to be understood; not only the Effectours of Peace, but even the Affectours of Peace ſhal be bleſſed.
1653, Modern Policies, Taken from Machiavel, Borgia, and Pther Choice Authors, by an Eye-Witnesse, the fourth edition, London: Tho: Dring: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: […]