affectionateness
Example Sentences
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Tears came into Salvina's eyes at her sister's affectionateness.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
What impression would the brightness, sweetness, and affectionateness of Jesus have made on the temper and disposition of John?
From Personal Friendships of Jesus by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)
Your villa is admirable, and you yourself, as you sit there, are the personification of comfort, the personification, too, of gentle, sweet, undemonstrative affectionateness.
From The Front Yard by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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)
He amuses all the men everywhere by his affectionateness, and eating 346 out of my hand, and following me like a dog.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
