amativeness

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Belacqua “received such a stunning crack on his eminent coccyx, that little known funny bone of amativeness, that he all but swooned for joy,” Beckett writes.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2014

It must be amativeness which urges them to go and hear men preach.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

In thoroughbred Ainu I found the bumps of amativeness, philoprogenitiveness, and tune very well developed.

From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage

Moreover, the substance of human nature is so mixed that it would perhaps be fanatical to expect from Whitman's chivalry of "adhesiveness" a more immaculate purity than was attained by the medi�val chivalry of "amativeness."

From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by Symonds, John Addington

Brother Dickinson: As to the talk of amativeness, what about our holiness meetings and seaside meetings, where we go to hear woman, and to be moved by her words and her personality?

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady