affectionateness
Example Sentences
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"She thinks I am in love with her because I said that about affectionateness," he thought.
From The Front Yard by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
Touching in their affectionateness are the remarks which each passes upon each.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
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
It may have been his sacrifice and deep devotion, or that kindly affectionateness which is itself sublime.
From Oliver Goldsmith by Buckland, E. S. Lang
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.
