affectionateness
Example Sentences
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“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
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)
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
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 Austin, Mary Hunter
She reminded him of the boy's great natural goodness, his brilliancy, his affectionateness.
From The Ifs of History by Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar
