affecter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   one who puts on a pretense or affects a manner

   He was a shameless affecter of accents he had never spoken.

An agentive form of affect (in the sense 'to feign') + -er, from Latin affectare ('to strive after, pretend'), frequentative of afficere ('to act upon'), from ad ('to') + facere ('to do, make').

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