affectionateness
Example Sentences
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The piety, the humanity, and the affectionateness of Boaz and Ruth form a beautiful picture in the early Hebrew history, and seem to come before us anew in the character of David.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie
What it might have made for graciousness for once in my life to have been the centre of that dramatic affectionateness, I can only guess.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
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 Compton MacKenzie
"She thinks I am in love with her because I said that about affectionateness," he thought.
From The Front Yard by Constance Fenimore Woolson
John Packer liked to be cross and autocratic, and to oppose people; but there was hidden somewhere in his heart a warm spot of affectionateness and desire for approval.
From The Life of Nancy by Sarah Orne Jewett
