Affection for and Love for

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Love for and affection for are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Love for" instead a noun phrase "Affection for".

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Affection for and love for are semantically related. You can use "Affection for" instead a noun phrase "Love for".

However, his love for Farkle is never in doubt and he does show affection for his colleagues when he praises them for a job well done and solicits their help in starting an independent business.

Source: Fanfic / The Minkiad
Taken back in the second add-on, Hordes of the Underdark, where Aribeth states that her affection for Fenthick was more due to her devotion to her faith than because of her love for him - or, as she states it: "it was like being married to my church" (she was a paladin of Tyr, he was a priest).

Source: Being Tortured Makes You Evil
Eto tries manipulating Kaneki and is revealed to have a twisted love for him as she's both trying to kill him and licking his eye before declaring affection for him again as he tosses her mutilated body from a building.

Source: Mind Game Ship

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