appreciativeness

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It may be said with equal truth, that it is difficult for a man of any appreciativeness to have convictions at all. 

From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas

Nay it may happen that arrangements of lines which would flutter and flurry us on days of quiet appreciativeness, will become in every sense "sympathetic" on days when we ourselves feel fluttered and flurried.

From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Lee, Vernon

In the gentleman intellectual altruism and moral appreciativeness are large elements.

From Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College by Thwing, Charles Franklin

The vast waste which this limitation of prospect entails is the most grievous rejection of moral treasure, if it be true that nothing enriches the nature like wide sympathy and many-coloured appreciativeness.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by Morley, John

How many ingenuous boys, lads in the very flush and hey-day of appreciativeness of the epic virtues, have been parsed, declined, and conjugated into an utter detestation of the melodious names of Homer and Virgil!

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles