English

Noun

affectationist ‎(plural affectationists)

1. One who exhibits affectation.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fitzed. Hall to this entry?)

   • 1874, The British Quarterly Review (volumes 59-60, page 274)

     Colour is a grand subject for our modern affectationists. The proof of a gift for colour would, according to them, appear to be that you do not see in any object the colour which people have seen in it since the beginning of the world […]

   • 1977, Austria Today (volume 3, page 49)

     First of all, Artmann is to be understood as an affectationist, whereby this qualification need not imply a negative innuendo. He is not an epigone but an author who masters, with great capability, the literary tradition of many European nations […]