affettuoso
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of affettuoso
1715–25; < Italian: affecting, moving < Latin affectuōsus, equivalent to affectu ( s ) affect 1 + -ōsus -ous
Example Sentences
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Nor is the annoyance they give diminished when the chimer, instead of ringing such changes as are suited to bells, will insist upon playing affettuoso.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
Its possessor had watched with interest his progress, interrupted with entanglements, and had listened to the music of his march, the canine fantasia, staccato, affettuoso!
From A Man and His Money by Isham, Frederic Stewart
After a short appearance of the affettuoso theme the movement finishes triumphantly on the third theme in a great blaze of music.
From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher
The prelude to Act ii. is called "Ophelia," and is quite conventionally affettuoso.
From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher
No dainty dolce affettuoso I, Bearded, sun-burnt, gray-neck'd, forbidding, I have arrived.
From A Day with Walt Whitman by Clare, Maurice
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