Not solely from lingering affection for the careworn incumbent, I hope they do just that.
Manners died in Clinton in 1853 from "affection of the heart."
It's his way of distancing himself from affection, which he's not sure he's able to return.
I had not designed either one of them nor clung to them from affection.
A man who'd left her short of everything from affection to money.
She would have kissed him, but the smith shrank back from public affection, preferring privacy for all things which pass between a man and woman.
Johnson says that, on the contrary, the preference springs from affection for others.
There was a certain irony in the words, from his bed to hers, but also affection.
But building everything, from affection to ships, takes so long.
They know the jokes come from affection, and that's why I think they laugh.