affectionate

Adjective

affectionate (comparative more affectionate, superlative most affectionate)

1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond.
   • She eulogised her always warm and affectionate brother.
2. (usually) Characterised by or proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender.
   • the affectionate care of a parent; an affectionate countenance; an affectionate message; affectionate language
   • 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 […], →OCLC
3. (obsolete) Eager; passionate; strongly inclined toward something.

Verb

IPA/əˈfɛkʃəneɪt/

affectionate (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.
   • Plutarch saith fitly of those who affectionate themselves to Monkies and little Dogges, that […]., Folio Society, 2006, p.21
   • 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