sociableness

Example Sentences

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Strikes me that Heman's sociableness is the best sign yet.

From Cy Whittaker's Place by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

Here is a great deal of good company, and abundance of gentry being in the neighbourhood, it adds to the sociableness of the place. 

From From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" by Morley, Henry

It would be hard to describe adequately the friendliness and complete sociableness of these neighborhood gatherings.

From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind

But the kindly sociableness of these Dutch prevented any decidedly vicious tendency among them, and went far toward making amends for any real or supposed laxity in religious principles.

From Woman's Life in Colonial Days by Holliday, Carl

Clearness, reasonableness, sociableness, were the highest requirements -153-of art; and any excessive expression of the poet's individuality was entirely disapproved of.

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias