affectionateness

Example Sentences

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Lensky himself feels a little surprised at his sister-in-law's affectionateness; he looks at her in astonishment.

From Boris Lensky by Schubin, Ossip

I wondered if it was because all her own crises were complicated with Henry Mills that she always thought that affectionateness was part of the answer.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter

There was an affectionateness in the mere outside of every one of them.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

The next scene is between the mother, father and daughter; Clytemnestra, full of questions about the marriage, Iphigenîa full of excitement and shy tenderness, which expresses itself in special affectionateness towards her father.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert

Very tentative they were, for he had become a boy of subdued passions, and potential rather than actual affectionateness.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)