affectionateness

Example Sentences

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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

His affectionateness, purity, simplicity—a simplicity so perfect that it seemed divine—surrounded his greatness with an atmosphere of light and beauty.

From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny

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

Tears came into Salvina's eyes at her sister's affectionateness.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

With the utmost affectionateness and freedom of intercourse there was a certain raptness of devotion, a mingled simplicity and elevation of thought and feeling, peculiarly his own.

From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.