affectionateness

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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)

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

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

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

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

“That was sweet of you, Hannah,” she said presently, a look of simple affectionateness chasing away the other.

From A Beautiful Alien by Magruder, Julia