affectionateness

Example Sentences

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She reminded him of the boy's great natural goodness, his brilliancy, his affectionateness.

From The Ifs of History by Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar

These outbreaks of despair for mankind were the more obnoxious to Jenny because they were always followed by a monstrous excess of his privileges, by an utterly abhorred affectionateness.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

He sidled and fluttered for an interval, making up his mind to a resumption of affectionateness, and finally making it up that he couldn't, and remembering an engagement somewhere for the evening.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter

No; of anything good she was capable; no depths of love could be beyond her, and he was sure that her nature was one of deep affectionateness, left unclaimed till now.

From Mariquita A Novel by Ayscough, John

But in private relations he was simplicity and sociability and affectionateness incarnate, and playful as a young opossum.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William