affectionateness

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With the utmost affectionateness and freedom of intercourse there was a certain raptness of devotion, a mingled simplicity and elevation of thought and feeling, peculiarly his own.

From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.

He spoke with a careless affectionateness, for the young Countess in her helpless beauty appealed to him.

From A Modern Mercenary by Prichard, K. (Kate)

And so was the affectionateness of woman—meaning nothing, only an effect of warmth and geniality, nothing beyond that.

From The Marriage of Elinor by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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