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16 “Studium” in Oxford Latin dictionary: “earnest application of one's attention or energies to some specified or implied object, zeal, order. “The examples from the OED make the point. In the same time period (1608–11), Bishop Hall wrote: ”to be carried away with an affectation of fame is so vaine and absurd.” Saxonhouse's own footnote in the recent edition of the Three Discourses also makes the point. There she gives “pursuit” as a synonym of “affectation” (p. 112 n. 16).

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