| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.374 | Whiles I in this affair do thee employ | Whiles I in this affaire do thee imply, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.16 | With this affair along. For all, our thanks. | With this affaire along, for all our Thankes. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.174 | But what is your affair in Elsinore? | But what is your affaire in Elsenour? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.317 | some frame, and start not so wildly from my affair. | some frame, and start not so wildely from my affayre. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.59 | That else leans on the affair. Pray you make haste. | That else leanes on th'Affaire, pray you make hast. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.21 | Best half of our affair. | Best halfe of our Affaire. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.87 | Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you. | Notice of my affaire: I humbly thanke you: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.273 | Either for her stay, or going. Th' affair cries haste, | Either for her stay, or going: th'Affaire cries hast: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.208 | dealt most directly in thy affair. | dealt most directly in thy Affaire. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.733 | there; whereupon I command thee to open thy affair. | there: whereupon I command thee to open thy Affaire. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.247 | What's your affair, I pray you? | What's your affayre I pray you? |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.36 | For this affair. Some four or five attend him – | For this affayre: some foure or fiue attend him, |
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| bear | carry on, manage, conduct [an affair] |
| business | deed, action, affair, task |
| cause | affair, business, subject |
| concerning | concern, affair, matter |
| condition | matter, affair, concern |
| confessor | boaster, braggart [of love affairs] |
| cot-quean | man acting the housewife, meddler in household affairs |
| depositary | trustee, manager of affairs |
| despatch | settlement of business, sorting out of affairs |
| dispatch, despatch | settlement of business, sorting out of affairs |
| dispute | discuss, consider, deal with [a state of affairs] |
| domestic | internal, to do with home affairs, local |
| employment | matter, business, affair |
| encounter | liaison, intercourse, amorous affair |
| gear | business, affair, matter |
| matter | affair(s), business, real issue |
| occasion | course of events, state of affairs |
| secret | private affair, confidence |
| service | military service, affairs of war |
| square | affairs, proceedings |
| state | condition, circumstances, situation, state of affairs |
| statist | statesman, politician, man of affairs |
| steward | controller of a household's domestic affairs |
| temporary | in temporal affairs, of this world's doings |
| time | times, present day, present state of affairs |
| toy | piece of nonsense, foolish affair |
| world | times, life, state of affairs |
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| affair | square |
| affair | cause |
| affair | concerning |
| affair | business |
| affair | matter |
| affair | gear |
| affair | employment |
| affair | condition |
| affair, amorous | encounter |
| affairs, man of | statist |
| affairs, manager of | depositary |
| affairs, present state of | time |
| affairs, sorting out of | despatch |
| affairs, state of | world |
| affairs, state of | state |
| affairs, state of | occasion |
| amorous affair | encounter |
| controller of a household's domestic affairs | steward |
| foolish affair | toy |
| home affairs, to do with | domestic |
| man of affairs | statist |
| manager of affairs | depositary |
| private affair | secret |
| sorting out of affairs | despatch |
| state of affairs | world |
| state of affairs | state |
| state of affairs | occasion |
| temporal affairs, in | temporary |
| war, affairs of | service |
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| French | ...(int.) mw v.iii.5 goodbye affair (n. f.) mw i.iv.50 business ...
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Words Families
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| Word Family | Word Family Group | Words |
| AFFAIR | BASIC | affair n |
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