amiableness

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It expresses the utmost degree of amiableness, joined with an idea, which perhaps all tenderness includes, of feebleness, softness, and want of protection.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

His amiableness in his own Being, therein surpassing all created things.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann

But his amiableness could be traced to the fact of his being conceited of the swinish selfishness of which he had been guilty.

From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Beach, Charles A.

They may have another effect too, viz. to destroy that delusion which many persons labour under as to the innocence and amiableness of mankind in a state of nature.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

Nevertheless there was nothing of the coxcomb about Queeker—no self-assertion; nothing but amiableness, self-satisfaction, and enthusiasm.

From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)