interestedness
Example Sentences
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I think it was the clearness and understanding in them, and a sort of great interestedness.
From The White People by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I might give them what degree of credit I pleased; and take them with abatement for Mr. Solmes's interestedness, if I thought fit.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
Now that Roxalanne came to entreat him to do that which already he saw himself forced to do, he turned his attention to the profit that he might derive from her interestedness on my behalf.
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini
These are attachments that depend on sentiment rather than on interest, and which are as much purer and holier, as virtuous sentiment is purer and holier than worldly interestedness.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper
However, through all the rigid discipline the little girl retained her natural buoyancy of childhood, the spontaneous interestedness, the cheerfulness and animation, which were a part of her goodly heritage.
From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Helen Mason Groce
