affectionateness

Example Sentences

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Though she inherited much of the imperial energy of her mother, it was tempered and adorned with the mildness and affectionateness of her father.

From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

These outbreaks of despair for mankind were the more obnoxious to Jenny because they were always followed by a monstrous excess of his privileges, by an utterly abhorred affectionateness.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

“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

No; of anything good she was capable; no depths of love could be beyond her, and he was sure that her nature was one of deep affectionateness, left unclaimed till now.

From Mariquita A Novel by Ayscough, John

Very tentative they were, for he had become a boy of subdued passions, and potential rather than actual affectionateness.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)