affectionateness

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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)

She remembered that, often struck by the affectionateness and intelligence that beamed from Yvon's eyes, she had asked herself how such looks could come from a young man who was devoid of reason.

From The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium by Sue, Eugène

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

But in private relations he was simplicity and sociability and affectionateness incarnate, and playful as a young opossum.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William

It may have been his sacrifice and deep devotion, or that kindly affectionateness which is itself sublime.

From Oliver Goldsmith by Buckland, E. S. Lang