affectionateness

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

She saw Noel's father and mother again, and was greeted by the latter with a bright and conditional affectionateness that inspected even while it acclaimed.

From Consequences by Delafield, E. M.

This man possessed not merely in an unusual, but in an absolutely unique, degree the grace of sympathetic affectionateness.

From Oliver Goldsmith by Buckland, E. S. Lang