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Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.
- Furthermore, I may say, that the Sultan was always most affable to me in my interviews with him, even when I had to discuss some missionary questions. In fact, I never saw any traces of the difficulties which Mr. Terrell reported.
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Mild; benign.
- During more affable weather, the four friends congregate outside, sometimes leaning their hickory chairs against a "catapa" tree[…]
ant. inaffable · unaffable