Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
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: |
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, |
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. |
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, |
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. |
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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 | cause |
affair | concerning |
affair | business |
affair | matter |
affair | gear |
affair | employment |
affair | condition |
affair | square |
affair, amorous | encounter |
affairs, man of | statist |
affairs, manager of | depositary |
affairs, present state of | time |
affairs, sorting out of | despatch |
affairs, state of | state |
affairs, state of | occasion |
affairs, state of | world |
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 | state |
state of affairs | occasion |
state of affairs | world |
temporal affairs, in | temporary |
war, affairs of | service |
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Themes and Topics
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result(s).
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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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result(s).
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Word Family | Word Family Group | Words |
AFFAIR | BASIC | affair n |
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