affectionateness

Example Sentences

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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

The next scene is between the mother, father and daughter; Clytemnestra, full of questions about the marriage, Iphigenîa full of excitement and shy tenderness, which expresses itself in special affectionateness towards her father.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert

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.

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

But in private relations he was simplicity and sociability and affectionateness incarnate, and playful as a young opossum.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William