sociableness

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Human terror at superiority over natural law is highly ludicrous when the superiority is evinced as though it were ordinary, negligible, and compatible with sociableness.

From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.

That government will seek the good of all is likely to be the case, because man has it as a fundamental law of his nature that he "maintain a sociableness with others."

From Unitarianism in America by Cooke, George Willis

"The outer beach in winter ain't exactly a camp-meeting for sociableness," he said.

From Cap'n Eri by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

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

And now all this atmosphere of quiet sociableness was about to be destroyed through the paltry misdemeanours of a subfuse cat.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir