appreciativeness
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Kendal bad introduced him to her, in a brief encounter at the Salon, and she remembered the appreciativeness of the glance that accompanied the stout middle-aged English gentleman's bow.
From A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan
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 John Morley
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 Charles Lamb
She seemed to take him in, with a benign appreciativeness, in his entirety.
From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Even in Gray’s—‘Pindaric Gray’s’—treatment of classical themes, there is a sort of pervading ennui, or the forced appreciativeness of a gouty, disappointed man.
From Proserpine and Midas by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
